I’ve been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I’ve never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it’s impossible to flash most consumer grade routers.

id like to learn more stuff about cyber security, host other stuff, maybe host a website, but I’m just a guy who lives in an apartment. I’m stuck with 1 Internet service that claims it will terminate my service if they find me to be hosting anything. They must be semi-lax with that rule, because i haven’t gotten terminated for using ssh and cockpit.

Do you guys own a house, or are just fortunate enough to have access to an ISP that will let you host your own stuff?

  • @GompjeEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    For me it’s simple: my ISP has crippled the upload to 30mbps making it impossible to host something from my home publically (download is 300mbps or more) but I do selfhost on unraid … it’s just for stuff in my house or for my privately with vpn outside. I run a TON of apps this way… I just don’t need them to be … public they are just for me to use at home mostly.

    That for me is also selfhosting.

    Now that said: I still ask the same question to my isp when they want to upsell me something: and what about the upload? The sales persons mostly don’t know what I mean or how it matters 🤦‍♀️… anyway I’ve been doing this for 20+ years now…… kinda lost hope? But nah not yet 😏 … “hoop doet leven” we tell or selves over here (translates to: hope is live)

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      I also have limited upstream connectivity (40 Mbps nominally, in practice up to 43 sometimes), but I still host a nextcloud instance (files, addresses, calendars) for family and friends.

      Fibre will become available soon with up to 300 Mbps upstream, then I may consider installing Lemmy or even a small peertube instance.

      Yes, we own a house, so I have a dedicated server room in the basement with a small rack with a few old, but still moderately powerful servers, and our ISP (Deutsche Telekom) offers unlimited traffic volume and has no restrictions on hosting, as far as I can tell. Maybe if I did it commercially that would be different, but I don’t think so.

    • HiddenRetroEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Same here. I have multiple servers between unraid and proxmox. Everything I have set is for local use. I used to have a few things accessible externally but now revert to using WireGuard if I need to access things locally. Only exception is that I have Nextcloud publicly accessible.