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Greetings,

my current ISP refuses to provide me a static IP and they also blocks incoming connection to my ipv6 so I can't host services on just ipv6 too. I will be changing my ISP when the plan expires.

without public IP I can host my own IRC bouncer but I would like to know what else can I self host? Thanks in advance!

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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

Use VPN or DDNS connected to your domain registrar. Of course DDNS might not update immediately, especially if your domain host is not the same as your DNS provider, so you might have outages for short periods when your IP changes. So, depends on if you're OK with that or what kind of connection you have and whether it changes your IP a lot.

Also, might be able to get an IPv6 address for free depending on your ISP or at least you can set up your router to request that your address block is retained for you. I know Comcast does this. Unfortunately, my ISP does not.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

I just use a DDNS updater. That's honestly good enough for most purposes.

Alternatively, you could use a service like Zerotier, Tailscale or Netbird to create a virtual private LAN connection to a free Oracle VPS, then route the traffic from the VPN to your home network.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Put everything behind Tailscale or another VPN and use it that way from outside devices. There should be very little need to have a public IP, and if there's something that has to be exposed, use ngrok, cloudflared or Tailscale Funnel.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

Tailscale or Cloudflare will solve your problems.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 10 hours ago

Basically everything. Self hosting doesn't rely on public access.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

softwares

That's like 'traffics' and 'manies' and 'mails', right?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 minutes ago

They don't seem to realize that you can run whatever software you want internally.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Rent a VPN, setup a wire guard tunnel and fuck your ISP!

Anyway having a real public IP on a residential block is basically impossible anywhere but in the USA, I guess.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

Public IPV4 here. It's not static, but very rarely rotates. DDNS ftw.

Telus Residential in Canada.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Literally anything you want. You don’t need a static IP, any dynamic IP with a software updater will work. For example, I have some public sites proxied through Cloudflare, and I use the DDNS updater for Docker that keeps my DNS correct.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The ISP is blocking his ports too, it seems.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Should check which ports.

Mine blocks 80 inbound and 25 outbound, but everything else I've tried works. (so no default http, and no outbound email)

I only really want 443 for simplicity, everything else can be random ports.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That’s an odd thing to see these days. I didn’t know ISPs still did that. I bet they offer a more expensive tier for businesses is why.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 7 hours ago

In my country no ISP will offer you a real IP address anymore. Not on IPv4 at least. So doesn't matter if your ports are blocked or not, you are CG-NATted in any case.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Anything

I use cloudflare / cloudflared agent to provide features hosted locally

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 47 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Anything. You don't need any services to be public unless you choose for them to be.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

actually I was thinking about hosting my own fediverse service to own my data but I can't do that without a static public IP and domain name.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 34 minutes ago

You actually want a cloudfare tunnel if youre going to do that. It protects your real IP. Hosting a fediverse instance will draw attention to your real IP eventually otherwise.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 27 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

As long as you're not behind CGNAT, you can use a dynamic DNS provider (like duckdns.org) and its web API to keep a record pointed at your IP. If you're behind CGNAT, Tailscale also has a service (Tailscale Funnel) that can expose an internal service to the internet.

You could also pay for a small VPS with a static IP, and set up a Wireguard tunnel to your home server and an HTTPS proxy to forward traffic through the tunnel.

Also, just in general, use Tailscale. It's serious black magic fuckery on the firewall.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

I tried using DuckDNS for a while for DDNS, but noticed it seemed to have frequent periods of a few minutes each when it just wouldn’t resolve. Also was unable to get a matrix/synapse setup working behind it. It’s handy as a free service and nice if you just need basic DDNS, but it’s not the most reliable for hosting stuff from my experience.

I eventually settled on buying my own domain. Was much cheaper and easier to figure out DNS management than I was expecting, and my hosted services run so smoothly now.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago

Yeah I am behind CGNAT so I guess I have to use either Tailscale or wireguard as other users also suggested.

Thank you for the reply!

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

@whoareu cloudflare tunnel can easily help you do that. the only limitation is your domain will need to be from cloudflare. It works well, I am hosting an instance without any public IP and without exposing any ports.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Your domain need to be tied to cloudflare you don't need to buy one from them. I just moved mine to them didn't pay them a dime

[–] StaticFlow@feddit.uk 20 points 12 hours ago

Self host all your stuff and use tailscale if you just want to provide private services to yourself

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 10 hours ago

I just have a script that checks my IP every few minutes and changes the DNS record as necessary

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

You can use Tailscale, you can access your personal services with it but also expose public services with their Funnels system.

Keep in mind that while the clients are open source, their servers are running proprietary software.

[–] lorentz@feddit.it 7 points 10 hours ago

I started using headscale (the opensource reimplementation of tailscale server) on a private vps. It is incredibly better compared to plain wireguard. I regret waiting so much before switching.

Something that really made my life easier: wireguard is poor at roaming: switching to and from my wifi created issues because the server wasn't reachable anymore from its public ip and wireguard didn't bother to query the DNS again to check the new IP. Also, configuration is dead simple because it takes care of iptables for you (especially good when you enables forwarding to a node).

Since the server just sends small messages for the control plane and all the traffic is p2p between the devices, the smallest vps with the smaller connectivity is more than enough to handle it.

[–] fiddlesticks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 13 hours ago

As someone in a similar situation I'd recommend using a free tier oracle vps with a wireguard tunnel to connect to you services. Effectively just using the vps as a proxy for your own network. Here's a guide that should work for your purposes https://github.com/mochman/Bypass_CGNAT

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The best way would be to use a VPS to proxy your traffic to you. You can achieve this for pretty cheap, just set up an wireguard tunnel to a cheap VPS. That's exactly how I access all my services from outside my home. As long as the VPS has a publicly accessible IP (most of them do), you being behind CGNAT should not be an issue.

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 3 points 12 hours ago

This is the way OP

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I mean you can host anything. It's just not reachable from the outside. And Fediverse or anything that gets data pushed in, won't work. The common method to handle all of this is to use some tunnelling solution.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 9 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

my current ISP refuses to provide me a static IP

So then use dynamic dns? HurricaneElectric offers DynDNS now and it's great. You can update it right over curl if you want. I have it mapped to a cli function;

~\downloads
❯ ddns
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Content-Length: 18
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:24:18 GMT
Email: DNS Administrator <dnsadmin@he.net>
Expires: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:24:18 GMT
Server: dns.he.net v0.0.1

nochg {ip}
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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If this is just for personal use, I'd see if you can put their router in modem mode and go get a better router, then I'd just use tail-scale or WireGuard.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

tailscale is looking good I might try that

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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Use Cloudflare's free tier tunnel

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[–] nitrolife@rekabu.ru 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Look:

  1. you can buy any VPS server or use free VM in Amazon cloud
  2. then connect your home PC to this VPS with VPN tunnel After that you have public IP address (on VPS) linked with you home server.
  3. configure VPS for pass through incoming ports to you home server After that you can host anything for anyone in v4 or v6 internet.
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

Just make sure you secure everything

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