CTDummy

Man you too huh? I didn’t realise how lucky we were ISP wise, guess my country had to have some things going for it.

I get where you’re coming from but this is a pretty full on response isn’t it? I work in a technical organisation and plenty there don’t do it despite having the skill set. I assume this is more the framing of the question not “why doesn’t the average granny who worked as a teacher her whole life self-host?”

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.

1 Most ISP use this, one of the main beginning steps for self hosting is requesting a static IP (actually you may not even need this, just having one automatically opts you out of CGNAT for my ISP) 2. Surely this is worded to mean “you can’t host a server farm from your domestic service (pay us for a different, more expensive service)” and not “no self hosting allowed”?

Personally, port forwarding was pretty low on the list. Also, what happened to portfoward.com? It was invaluable to me back in the day but is jammed with ads now (at least on mobile). Once you figure it out for your particular router it’s pretty much done. Also, if a provider charges you enough for a static IP to host a VPS, you need a new ISP. Unless VPS’ are cheaper than I expected?

For me when I first started it was VLANs (former ISP had one, “bricked” a router trying to make it work before I knew what I was doing), subnetting and getting shit like mariaDB to work/docker in general.