[sjducb]

It is easy. In the olden days it was the only way.

- Get a static IP from your ISP

- Point the DNS record at the static IP

- On the server run NGINX + Gunicorn + Django

That setup will have >99.5% uptime and handle 1000 - 10,000 concurrent users, depending on the complexity of the website.

[LeafItAlone]

> Get a static IP from your ISP

Unfortunately easier said than done. Many of the major ISPs, like Comcast, don’t offer them to residential customers. And some ISPs (like mine, in the past) won’t do business service to some residential buildings.

Fortunately there are dynamic DNS services that help with this problem.

[sjducb]

I’ve got a static IP it’s doable.

A dynamic DNS service might be cheaper tho.

[gempir]

This just totally depends on your country and ISP.

In Germany most ISPs don't even give you a dynamic IPv4, it's cgnat so you share with a lot of other people.

But there are ways around it. I use Cloudflare Tunnel and that way I don't expose anything (I could only do it with ipv6 but in the end Cloudflare Tunnels are easier)

[inferiorhuman]

I've got a static IP (v4) too. Used to be Sonic would offer your four IPs for free. Now it's down to one, and only if you're in an area not served by their fiber service. They've backed away almost immediately from the idea of offering static IPs to their fiber customers and I'm pretty sure they don't do IPv6 with fiber either. And Sonic supposed to one of the better web providers out there.

I've also got 10G fiber with them, and at least this time the IP didn't change after they updated the firmware on their garbage ONT. XG(S?)-PON stuff is still real immature.

[AA-BA-94-2A-56]

To agree with your point, I just looked this for my ISP (Telstra, Australia), and it seems it costs $10/mo to do this. It's not much, but consider that a VPS is likely to cost me less than even that.

[xivusr]

Afraid.org is pretty old but has offered free dynamic dns for awhile and works great

[grocketeer]

Thanks!

[quickthrower2]

Or use tailscale?

[shortrounddev2]

There's services which provide a dynamic DNS by having the host ping the DNS provider periodically to update the A records with the new IP automatically. Used to do that with a minecraft server

[justsomehnguy]

Just get the cheapest VPS you can find and slap OpenVPN/Wireguard there.

Now you can run your homeserver even from a hotspot, if needed.