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Hosting websites over 4g (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by justawittyusername@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have been hosting a few websites from my home server and it has taught me a lot. I have recently had major issues with the electrical storms, Kogan NBN support (Australia), and the NBN network in general. I know 4g is not fast, but I would like to use it so that in the event of a network outage, im not at the mercy of NBN. On to the question!

I run pfsense in hyper v with a 4 port nic which passes through those ports to pfsense.

I realized that 4g ip addresses are not public, which stops me from hosting the websites.

Reading into wireguard and vpn services my plan is to:

Set up a VPS ✅
Set up wireguard on the VPS ✅
Create a wireguard connection on my windows server, and pass that in as an interface to pfsense, so that hopefully, I wont need to change to much on my internal infrastructure.

Does this sound like an OK plan? I'm open to any other ideas where I can achieve the following:

web app >> nginx >> pfsense >> vpn tunnel >> VPS with Public IP (can be dynamic)

Thanks!---

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you're buying a VPS why not host the website there?

[–] justawittyusername@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good question, I will want to host more in the future, im trying to keep costs as low as possible.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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.