[xg15]

I think local hardware makes sense for LAN-only sites - e.g. a company wiki, a media center or a file storage with web interface.

For anything that is supposed to be visible on the internet, I'd always use a hosted server - if nothing else, because I really don't want to open an ingress into my personal home network, even if my ISP permitted that.

For use-cases were you have to handle certain incoming requests even though your setup is mostly LAN-only otherwise (webhooks, ACME, adding some dashboard you can access from your phone...), services like PageKite[1] sound promising.

[1] http://pagekite.net/

[elcritch]

That pagekite looks handy! I’ve recently got gigabit fiber at home but my routers ipv6 firewall is crap. This seems easier than just making a custom vpn to a cloud instance.

[trees101]

an Argo tunnel is even easier. You can even get it for free; https://noise.getoto.net/2019/06/15/a-free-argo-tunnel-for-y...

[xg15]

It seems to be what Mozilla IoT/WebThings uses under the hood. So that's at least one credential :)

I stumbled over the service by trying to understand how the WebThings gateway was supposed to work.

https://iot.mozilla.org/docs/gateway-getting-started-guide.h...

https://github.com/WebThingsIO/registration_server/blob/mast...