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Does your ISP allow you to host your own server for a small website without paying for a commercial plan? I recently moved and my new ISP doesn't allow the port to be open.

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[–] rarkgrames 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mine does.

Is your ISP actively stopping you forwarding ports or is just a limitation of the router they provide? You could try a different router and see whether you can forward ports using that.

I forward port 443 to my load balancer which then sends traffic to the relevant server for the website being asked for which allows me to host multiple sites easily.

Cloudlfare tunnels might let you do what you need too. Worth checking.

Also, not sure if you know but there's a dedicated [email protected] community which might be up your street.

Cheers, and good luck!

[–] green_dragon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a hard set closed port inbound for serving. I'm not sure a different router will work but I will look into it. At my prior residence I had fiber to the home and a direct Ethernet connection, so I was able to run my own firewall, control the ports, and have a commercial switch for all the computers. I miss my guaranteed asynchronous 1000/1000 connection. Now even with a Gig plan I'm lucky to get 300/30.

[–] rarkgrames 2 points 1 year ago

Have a look in to Cloudlfare Tunnels. You install a client on your server and point the tunnel at the relevant IP address and port, so it might work. That would require your DNS to be managed by Cloudflare though.

[–] cooljacob204 3 points 1 year ago

What I did was I got a $5 digital ocean droplet and setup a wireguard tunnel to my server. I installed haproxy on the droplet and routed all traffic to where I wanted on my server.

I also handle all my certs on the droplet side.

[–] fubo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is one of many reasons to prefer smaller regional ISPs over the cable monopolists: the cable monopolists only want you to be an end-user staring at videos and clicking on cat pictures all day — not building new things like a Lemmy instance.

For instance, here in the Bay Area, regional ISPs like Sonic.net and Monkeybrains are friendly to hobbyist servers, while Comcast/Xfinity is very much not.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of places where the cable monopolist is the only straightforward option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can still do it without opening any port. Get a cheap VPS to act as a gateway, install a reverse proxy there (nginx, haproxy, etc) and route the inbound traffics from the VPS into a computer inside your home network using tailscale or zerotier.

[–] bquinlan 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither my previous nor my current ISPs have had any problem with it. Kind of surprising since they are both huge corporations.

[–] green_dragon 1 points 1 year ago

That is surprising! I found in Comcast's Terms & Conditions that you are not to host your own server!