Post AvdOS2vMr6YIGhdl9U by cybervegan@autistics.life
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 (DIR) Post #AvdDJ9MYRtti8QucOu by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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       Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.> But are you / they in the cloud?No. The webserver is in Newbruy, in my garage.> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*
       
 (DIR) Post #AvdDyg21tKV1KS75PM by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
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       @neil I'm somewhat envious of people who have ISPs good enough for this. I assume this means you must have a fixed-IP service?I know some ways around floating IPs, but they seem to all involve cloud services of some kind. And there's a firewall appliance to get through.So, I have a VPS instead. Probably going to do colocation later. I miss access to the hardware, to be sure.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvdFl7bCne0KgKEML2 by pietervdvn@en.osm.town
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       @TerryHancock @neil I host my forgejo on a dynamic IP. The IP basically only changes when the router restarts (e.g. on a power failure). Namecheap supports "dynamic DNS" (aka: update the IP address via an API call). Mix in a cronjob updating the IP address every 5 minutes, and you have a working setup. Sure, it might not be reachable for a few minutes, but for not-very-critical stuff, that is fine
       
 (DIR) Post #AvdMNGRAzGRsp26udU by gumnos@bsd.cafe
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       @TerryHancock Yeah, I've had the same minor jealousy of @neil where my ISP is considerably less friendly to running home servers. No static IP addresses, no rDNS, certain port filtering like :25, all of which makes mail especially hard…
       
 (DIR) Post #AvdOS2vMr6YIGhdl9U by cybervegan@autistics.life
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       @TerryHancock @neil All it takes is a dynamic DNS service and a client on your computer the updates your router's dynamic IP address to their DNS system's API. Both free and paid options available. I use the free Dynu offering.I used to run on VPSs, but that's *literally* "someone else's computer". My website used to run on an RPi 4, but I eventually migrated it to sit on my NAS server because it's one less computer to keep updated, and one less power socket constantly in use.