Subj : Re: Cheap Hosting...
To   : Tracker1
From : Nelgin
Date : Mon Mar 22 2021 20:32:39

Tracker1 wrote:
> On 3/21/2021 7:38 AM, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
>>> I only have 1 IP. Each of my BBS' is on a different port. All on the
>>> same machine. Running 5 BBS' 4 FTP's, 1 WWW, and 1 MUSH.
>> 
>> One thing I'm playing with is setting up a reverse proxy for web services.
>> Set up the proxy on the outside IP, or NAT into it, then use the proxy to
>> point subdirectories or virtual hosts off of that IP to internal hosts.
>> 
>> I'm using a router with DD-WRT, and with a package called Entware, it'll
>> support Linux applications. It's going to run NGINX as a main web server,
>> then proxy to my internal hosts.
>> 
>> Telnet and/or SSH still need to be on different ports and NATed in, but
>> that's easier to deal with than users or applications that expect to be on
>> ports 80 or 443.
> 
> For telnet/ssh you could have a system setup on the standard ports to 
> telgate to the appropriate internal system... Of course, that would 
> limit sftp to the one system.

Which means you'd be paying for a service to redirect your ports plug the
added latency. You might as well get a $50pa VPS.

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