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by FredPret 1081 days ago
I love DO as a user and not an investor, but their main value to me is that they have public-facing IPs. I could easily host all my sites on a single AMD machine under my desk, if only I had a good way of routing from the internet to my desk.

I would be closer to nine fives than five nines, but that's good enough even for many commercial sites, including mine.
2 comments
z3t4 1081 days ago
Just contact your ISP to get a public IP. You might not get a static IP, but you can configure a dhcp client to request your old IP when reconnecting after a power outage. Set DNS TTL reasonably low like 12 hours so that you can recover if you do get another IP.

Another way is to signup for a cheap VPS and use a tunnel to your home server. There's lots of really cheap VPS's with 128MB of memory that is plenty if you just want a tunnel.

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SteveNuts 1081 days ago
It's not really a silver bullet nowadays, residential plan ISPs are very wary of allowing inbound connections in my experience
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z3t4 1081 days ago
The problem is the lack of IPv4 addresses. IPv4 addresses are ridiculous expensive. And most people don't need a public address so ISP save a ton of money by using NAT. I don't know if they must give you one or not if you ask, but I think a public IP address should be a human right, or you should at least be able to change to an ISP that can provide one.
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nicolas_17 1080 days ago
How can a public IPv4 address be a human right while at the same time "we ran out of them" and there aren't anywhere near enough for everybody?
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graton 1081 days ago
One option you could try is using a CloudFlare tunnel.
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thejazzman 1081 days ago
I love this option. Doubles as a way to VPN-into your home network remotely (Warp Client) without opening any ports
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FredPret 1081 days ago
Thanks to you both. I'll look into it.

You can buy a computer that is 1000x more powerful than a droplet for a fraction of the ownership cost, especially if you only get occasional visitors.

I'm excited by the idea of completely decentralized hosting; now we just need decentralized payments - that take USD.

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noonething 1081 days ago
Sorry if I'm not getting something, but wouldn't dynamic dns help in your instance?
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FredPret 1081 days ago
You mean like No-IP? I used that to SSH into my own servers for a while, but I found it to not be 100% reliable.
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AYBABTME 1080 days ago
So your IP changes and your DNS entries are all invalid across the www until they TTL. And then you're back online.

Doesn't sound very useful for hosting anything public.

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