Is it just up-front cost? I understand that for larger instances because they’d have to setup heftier systems, but even micro-instances seem to rent cloud compute when they could probably get by with port-forwarding to an old laptop.
Edit: I understand that self-hosting is a skill that takes years to learn, and I’m aware that the vast majority of people on Earth choose to spend their time and energy investing into completely different topics. However, Lemmy tends to attract the techy type, so I suppose I just assumed the ratio of self-hosters-to-not would be higher. I’m not saying it’s trivial, just that I presume more Lemmings know how to do it than, say, Redditors (taking total users into account ofc)
No they definitely mean it, about the self hosting. I live somewhere with two giant monopolies on internet service, Comcast and Verizon. AFAIK, you can’t even request a static IP from them unless you pay wayyyy more money?
Man that fucking sucks, sorry to hear it. A static IP was an extra $5/month for my provider but we have a bunch of different providers here and this one is popular for being accommodating for stuff like that. According to their site you can just ring to request being removed from CGNAT. I should be grateful it’s competive. Even in my country I’ve heard about Comcast/Verizon malarkey.
Yeahh it’s unfortunate… I think i could get away without them noticing if I just kept traffic low enough, but I can’t afford even a cheap VPS to do all the reverse proxy stuff