I’ve been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I’ve never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it’s impossible to flash most consumer grade routers.
id like to learn more stuff about cyber security, host other stuff, maybe host a website, but I’m just a guy who lives in an apartment. I’m stuck with 1 Internet service that claims it will terminate my service if they find me to be hosting anything. They must be semi-lax with that rule, because i haven’t gotten terminated for using ssh and cockpit.
Do you guys own a house, or are just fortunate enough to have access to an ISP that will let you host your own stuff?
I also have limited upstream connectivity (40 Mbps nominally, in practice up to 43 sometimes), but I still host a nextcloud instance (files, addresses, calendars) for family and friends.
Fibre will become available soon with up to 300 Mbps upstream, then I may consider installing Lemmy or even a small peertube instance.
Yes, we own a house, so I have a dedicated server room in the basement with a small rack with a few old, but still moderately powerful servers, and our ISP (Deutsche Telekom) offers unlimited traffic volume and has no restrictions on hosting, as far as I can tell. Maybe if I did it commercially that would be different, but I don’t think so.