Purchasing a self-hosted server to avoid having to pay a truckload of money in storage space. Well, not only did I have to rent a smaller VPS anyways to bypass my ISP restrictions on incoming traffic (curse you CG-NAT!) but I also managed to brick two $100-ish microservers in two different attempts to patch them against BIOS vulnerabilities. If I ever manage to get the circuitry to save those devices though, they might work as a nice TV box each
Are you me? That’s the reason my basement looks like a storage locker from a tv show with a huge metal box in it which makes funny noises.
And the part about the isp is true as well. 3.95 a month just to circumvent some bullshit restrictions and to prevent having to switch to a ridiculously overpriced business plan just to get a static IP.
But it was a great learning experience and I now know my way around wire guard and basic iptables V4 and V6.
Yes I do - in fact I’m using a VPS with Wireguard to serve the website I’m replying to you from. I also use Zerotier at times to connect to my desktop computer while outside of my house.
Is there a good guide out there on how this would work? I tried to host my Plex server at a friend’s house while I am traveling but his ISP uses cgnat and the router wouldn’t let me do any sort of port forwarding so I gave up and now my family is bugging me about when Plex will be running again.
I’d also like to move beyond just forwarding ports to the internet because I know it’s a security vulnerability. I got everything to work correctly and I wasn’t worried about someone gaining access to my Plex server, but I’d like to do things the right way.
Thank you. This is definitely a bit high level for me (I never figured out how a reverse proxy works or even how to set one up) but I think it gives me the start to a rabbit hole I can dive into.
Purchasing a self-hosted server to avoid having to pay a truckload of money in storage space. Well, not only did I have to rent a smaller VPS anyways to bypass my ISP restrictions on incoming traffic (curse you CG-NAT!) but I also managed to brick two $100-ish microservers in two different attempts to patch them against BIOS vulnerabilities. If I ever manage to get the circuitry to save those devices though, they might work as a nice TV box each
Are you me? That’s the reason my basement looks like a storage locker from a tv show with a huge metal box in it which makes funny noises.
And the part about the isp is true as well. 3.95 a month just to circumvent some bullshit restrictions and to prevent having to switch to a ridiculously overpriced business plan just to get a static IP.
But it was a great learning experience and I now know my way around wire guard and basic iptables V4 and V6.
You know you can circumvent CGNAT with Tailscale, Zerotier, Cloudflared or just Wireguard?
Yes I do - in fact I’m using a VPS with Wireguard to serve the website I’m replying to you from. I also use Zerotier at times to connect to my desktop computer while outside of my house.
Is there a good guide out there on how this would work? I tried to host my Plex server at a friend’s house while I am traveling but his ISP uses cgnat and the router wouldn’t let me do any sort of port forwarding so I gave up and now my family is bugging me about when Plex will be running again.
I’d also like to move beyond just forwarding ports to the internet because I know it’s a security vulnerability. I got everything to work correctly and I wasn’t worried about someone gaining access to my Plex server, but I’d like to do things the right way.
https://tailscale.com/blog/introducing-tailscale-funnel/ check this out
Thank you. This is definitely a bit high level for me (I never figured out how a reverse proxy works or even how to set one up) but I think it gives me the start to a rabbit hole I can dive into.
Welcome