hi everyone,

I was just about to self-host a Ghost blog but then was warned that my ISP might change my external IP address at any time, so I would need to pay for a static IP address.

Is that true?

(I’d not seen much about that in stuff I’ve looked up so far about self hosting)

  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    20 hours ago

    I could make this quick: Is your internet access behind a CG-NAT? If yes: you’re gonna need a static IP.

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        But how will a tailnet help for a blog? At some point, the https port needs to be open.

        • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.comEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          tailscale will tunnel through and you can set it to pass through https. Lots of different ways to achieve this, as long as you have control over the dns and are able to set https up it will work. This is why for me I still use cloudflare, you can even setup a subdomain through their tunnels and they act as a cdn. For example, I run a linkstack instance, send instance and much more

          https://linkstack.relayeasy.com/@3dcadmin

      • Paddy66@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I was going to use Cloudflare to sort this, but I’m uncomfortable how big they are getting / lack of competition in that part of the market. So we looked at Pangolin as an alternative, but it’s a faff to self host.

        Hence why we’re back at exposing it straight out the back of Nginx Proxy Manager.

        • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.comEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          I get that… fo me though as I have been using Cloudflare for many years I can’t see any reason to change yet. That of course may change

    • Paddy66@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      My router says it has NAT enabled (in the WAN settings section - for the internet connection)

        • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
          1·
          24 hours ago

          Static IP is helpfull but not necessary. Even with NAT and a changeing IP there’s options, such as:

          1. dynamic dns.
          2. Public reverse proxy or tunnel.
          3. Onion routing.
          • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            23 hours ago
            1. How do you open the https port behind a nas?
            2. That public tunnel needs at least a public IP address again.
            3. Ok, forgot that one. But then you’re only accessible through Tor, isn’t it?
            • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
              1·
              23 hours ago
              1. Port forwarding
              2. Yes, and there’s services that do that for you
                  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
                    1·
                    22 hours ago

                    Hou will you configure the ISP’s NAT router to port-forward? You won’t be able to reach the forwarded port if your ISP doesn’t foward the port as well.