If you're buying a VPS why not host the website there?
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Good question, I will want to host more in the future, im trying to keep costs as low as possible.
Depending on what you are trying to host and where you live power usage and your own hardware might be more expensive than the VPS you require to host those.
This. Hosting at home might be cheaper if you are serving a lot of data, but in that case, the speed's going to kill you.
I'm a keen self-hoster, but my public facing websites are on a $4 VPS (Binary Lane - which I recommend since you're in Aus). In addition to less hassle, you get faster speeds and (probably) better uptime.
I know 4g is not fast, but I would like to use it
There was a time when people used to have 2400 bits per second from home (for the youngsters: that is 0.0003M). So if you are doing it for fun, why not.
True, but everything is more bandwidth demanding these days, plus we're used to fast loading.
Have you looked into Cloudflare Tunnel? It's a turnkey solution that does exactly what you want. No idea what the cost is though.
You're on the right track. As long as wiregurd on the VPS will allow an incoming connection from you home 4g, which will probably be CGNAT, it'll work. Did you look into running the NGINX reverse on the VPS? I like terminating external stuff on cloud side, then only bring filtered or desired traffic over the tunnel.
I mean I think it really depends on the type of website you're trying to host. A static blog would use way less bandwidth than a media server for example. Traffic would have the same effect too, where 1 concurrent visitor to a blog would probably be fine but 10,000 would be a problem.
I'm using Headscale for something similar. I have a VPS and a server at home. Both are on the same Headscale network. On the home server I set up a Matrix server. On the VPS I set up Caddy as a reverse proxy for the home server with its Headscale IP. It works nicely.
I'm not on 4G, though.
I doubt this will be any use, but my Telstra 4G has a public IPv6.
Thanks thats good to know! I have got onto tailscale and have a test lab setup with a digital ocean vps for the public IP(exit node) and a ubuntu machine with a tunnel to it. Its working, just need to translate that to pfsense...
Sounds like a connection would work with that setup but it would depend on what you are planning on hosting. Anything that is sensitive to latency would probably not work well. Static sites should be fine though.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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If you’re hosting websites and not applications, perhaps you can use SSGs like Hugo/Gatsby. You could deploy your site in a bucket and put cloudflare in front. They can also be used on your own server of course. If you are hosting applications and want to keep them on 4g, you could put a CDN (CloudFlare or …) in frint of it. That would cache all static resources and greatly improve response times.
If you’re hosting websites and not applications, perhaps you can use SSGs like Hugo/Gatsby. You could deploy your site in a bucket and put cloudflare in front. They can also be used on your own server of course. If you are hosting applications and want to keep them on 4g, you could put a CDN (CloudFlare or …) in frint of it. That would cache all static resources and greatly improve response times.