meanwhile I'm on a dynamic ip that hasn't changed in 18 months
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Most ISPs (especially smaller ones it seems) just run a basic DHCP server with leases expiring at a set interval. As long as your stuff is on and working when the lease renews, you'll pull the same IP forever.
As long as you don't want to run a mail server. DHCP ranges are cancer to ip reputation.
I'm pretty sure you don't want a mail server at home
I have 3 mail servers at home
My ISP blocks the ports needed for mail hosting :/
Pretty sure I'd have to go through them to get the rdns PTR records pointed at my domain too. PITA
Mine did too, all it took was a ticket to their helpdesk to get it unblocked
My local fiber provider doesn't advertise static IPs but they haven't changed my IP ever. I've been using them for going on 5 years
Same, buts been several years now. Att fiber. Don't use their modem either (except post power outage to establish coms back then I remove it.) I do use a ddyns service just in case. But it's been the same ip for years
I'd personally recommend that you instead get a VPS and then route traffic over Wireguard.
You already appear to have a plan but it is something to keep in mind.
Wouldn't that increase latency. Additionally speed could be limited by isp's single connection speed to VPS.
I use syncthing for some of my "can-never-lose-these" files. syncthing synchronizes files between different devices. This is not an online-file-hosting thing like Google Drive or OneDrive. These files are physically present on all synchronized devices.
My server is the "main" (you can make everyone equal) syncthing every other syncthing connects to. With an established connection, files will be synchronized on participating devices. AFAIK, syncthing is compatible with Windows, Android and Linux.
This way, my important files are on my server, my smartphone, my PC and my laptop and every single one of these devices must simultaniously explode for me to lose my data. Also, it's on docker hub
pi-hole is another great one. Local adblocker for the whole network, just set it as your DNS server or let the DHCP server propagate this DNS server to your clients. This too is on docker hub
Just make sure you make a backup from your syncthing clones, so an accidental delete/mess-up on one machine doesn't wipe out every copy!
Enable file versioning in Syncthing. Then you will have a backup copy of every change for however long you set it to keep them.
Yeah, I do daily VM-backups which include all of the data on syncthing. No matter what you have, you always gotta have a good backup-strategy.
To be honest, I used to have an ISP with dynamic addresses and it wasn't a huge deal. The address only changed every month or two. I used afraid.org's dynamic DNS service to get a dynamic address that followed the changes and created CNAME records for my real domain pointing at that. The actual connection was fucking awful but the dynamic IPs never caused any problems.
As for services: Nextcloud is well worth looking into for file sync and photo backup, especially if you've already got a file server running.
I don’t think my IP has ever actually changed, and I never asked for a static one. But that doesn’t really matter, because these days it’s a small matter to dynamically update the IP.
GoToSocial works without problems on Podman, they probably just meant that they can't give technical support for it.
👍 for hosting a xmpp server. Next step is to get a real domain name!
That's cool OP. I have a business internet package with a static IP. I do a lot of large file transfers between clients and it does come in handy. I've yet to serve any public facing services tho. I've tried on numerous occasions to get invidious running consistently. It just seemed like I was having to tinker with it weekly just to keep the wheel spinning. I'm not sure what the issues were except maybe YT blocking IPs.
Have fun OP, and be safe and secure with your new found powers.
I have tons of great suggestions depending on your hardware and what kinds of things you’d like to be hosting.
However, for starters, if you’re not doing so already, make sure you are binding your qBittorrent container to a privacy VPN network interface. Test it to ensure it’s working. There are sites out there that you can use to check how your torrent IP presents. No matter what you’re torrenting, keep your IP hidden. The last thing you want is your ISP to terminate your fancy new service.
Shout-out noip.com
Handy but only for three domains. They massively jacked their prices a couple of years ago. Moved most of my devices to Wireguard on a VPS instead.
I pray your ISP is more competent than mine!
Sometimes I'll lose the static IP I pay them for and they say it's not their fault. Why am I paying you for it, then!?
I think they just remove CGNAT with some assurance on IP being static over reboot, till it doesn't.
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