Tim, I could swear I read before, at least for residential services that Charter (now Spectrum) internet did NOT allow you to host a site which is why I have never tried to do it. I would guess that its all about the bandwidth dollars. Below is a link to their current TOS (terms of service) in case it is of interest: Ron https://www.spectrum.com/policies/internet-use-policy [https://www.spectrum.com/content/spectrum/residential/en/policies/internet-use-policy.thumb.200.200.png?ck=1621880089]<https://www.spectrum.com/policies/internet-use-policy> Spectrum - Internet Use Policy<https://www.spectrum.com/policies/internet-use-policy> Learn about our Internet Use Policy for Spectrum Internet® and data subscription. www.spectrum.com ________________________________ From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2024 6:34 AM To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> Cc: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug@lists.wlug.org>; Keith Wright <kwright@keithdiane.us>; Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> Subject: [WLUG] Re: Meeting next week! March 14th 2024! I knew this topic would be of interest to people! As I'm writing this Gmail is yelling at me to buy more storage.. For me the "self" is the level of control I have over it. Lately ISP's have gone out of their way to make it very hard to host services on your own networks and expose them to the internet. Tim. On Wed, Mar 13, 2024, 3:47 PM John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org<mailto:john@stoffel.org>> wrote:
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Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org<mailto:wlug@lists.wlug.org>> writes:
We've got a meeting next week!
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I think it's really worth talking about Self hosting.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Self". For twenty years I had a DSL connection with a static routable IPv4 address. I had an intenet host with Tandy Monitor that ran a name server, mail server, and web server. That's all broken now because the ISP no longer does DSL.
That's certainly a definite form of self hosting! When you run your own internet infrastructure (http, mail, ftp, ssh) that's you doing the work and keeping the control.
Instead I pay $10 month for a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from AfterBurst, which comes with an IP address. Pretty much everything that used to be in my basement is now in "the cloud". It's not "Self" because its not my computer, but almost everything else is the same. AfterBurst does not do anything, just let me use their computer to do it myself.
I do this too with a Linode Droplet ($5/mo) but I'm thinking I should upgrade to something with more CPU and Memory so I can run some better anti-spam tools.
The main problem I am dealing with now is that the internal (in home) network is notwork. I have been keeping notes and put them here:
That sucks!
I am trying to use IPv6, which I have never done before. If anybody has any suggestions...
I've tried as well in the past, with the big issue for me being getting from IPv6 internally to a (mostly) IPv4 network outside. I think IPv6 probably works better as a gateway to your home, since you can then assign multiple distinct IPs to your own block of 64 (or whatever the count it) of internal IPs and make them visible to the outside. So it removes NATing and such. But IPv6 just is a pain to do. I keep reading that Charter/Spectrum offers IPv6 IPs, but I haven't made the leap. Still working on my wireguard setup, which has falled to the side lately. [https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-green-avg-v1.png]<http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>