Comment by 👾 jecxjo
Re: "What is the current state of home hosting?"
I already own half a dozen domains, the vps is setup for web, email, a few gemini caps, caldav, doc share, git repos, and more. it would make sense to self host. I'll have to see what I can do about the IP.
I use iRedMail the past few years and it works well.
2025-07-18 · 10 months ago
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☕️ hyperreal · 2025-07-20 at 04:15:
I self-host all my services at home. If you don't want your private services (e.g. Nextcloud, FreshRSS, IRC) to be public-facing, I highly recommend using Tailscale to setup a private mesh network for each device. I run these private services in DietPi on a SBC. I setup ACLs in Tailscale.
My public-facing web services are on a separate device, which is accessible from the public internet by enabling port forwarding on ports 22, 80, 443, and 1965. Comcast's IDS/IPS and firewall is still active. Fail2ban doesn't show thousands of suspicious brute-force SSH login attempts like it does on a VPS.
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What is the current state of home hosting? — I've been running a VPS for about 20 years now. The internet situation at home has been pretty crappy for most of that time so I never really ran a setup at home. A few Pis running some services and that is all. Now that I have xfinity's gig fiber with unlimited bandwidth for the next 6 years, I'm wondering what the current state of self hosting at home is. Way back when if you had the ports for Postfix open you'd get a call from your ISP saying...