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I have an old laptop lying around and I have been meaning to self host some stuff on it but never got around to it.

My biggest limitation is that I only have WIFI and I do not control the network. It's basically your default residential WIFI network.

The only thing I actually need is self-hosted cloud. What can I utilize this laptop for?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I would advise against port forwarding without at least a proper firewall with isolation. It is very very dangerous to expose things to the internet and it will backfire at some point, sometimes without your knowledge.

Back when I first started I used a service called kubesail https://kubesail.com/

Now that I have way more hardware I just use a VPS on Linode to route traffic.