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It's sad that if you want a fast Internet around here you are put behind ISP wide NAT which means you can't host anything from home, so all these "self-hosted" things aren't really self-hosted for me.

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Just because it is behind a NAT doesn't mean you can't run a server. You just need to set the router to forward traffic to the server. Then you need a way to find your public IP address and that is easily done by setting up an account on a public dynamic IP server. I don't do this at the moment but I used to run my own mail server that way (I stopped because it is to hard to find someone to relay my mail now).

I talked long and hard with my ISP when they discontinued my "phone" connection and pushed me faster (jump from 8Mb/s to 100Mb/s) connection via TV cable and only way they can deliver me connection where I can expose ports to the Internet is 3G connection (which works around 3-5Mb/s where I live on a good day)

I'm not ISP locked, but no other ISP offers me anything else since: "we don't offer worse service since we can offer you faster connection via TV cable".

There's no reason why a cable connection can't have a public IP, I certainly did in both of my previous ISPs. Are you sure the other ISPs also have carrier NAT?

All I know is no matter what I do I can't get ports open to the Internet and my ISP plain out told me that it's impossible on their infrastructure

Setup a VPN or some sort of tunnel that you connect to from your home and proxy TLS across it that terminates on your hardware.

Your VPN provider can probably MITM that much like your ISP could but not without messing with the certificates that you're pinning.

You shouldn't have to do that but given the circumstances it'll work. Whether you can be bothered is another discussion.

Consider renting a tiny VPS and use it to tunnel its IPv4 address to your home box. Using tor is another option for some scenarios.

Yeah, but I don't like the idea of having my connection be routed through random VPS providers. I'd have to get a server from a reputable datacenter where only I'd get physical access to the machines.

But routing the connection through your ISP is fine? It sounds like you're making things harder for yourself than strictly necessary.

Pagekite might work: https://pagekite.net/

Indeed. Although you can still use AWS. But of course, then it is not really "self-hosted" anymore.

I have some (nearly) free AWS instance running irssi for me.

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