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Not everyone has a static ip. Most ISPs prohibit dedicated hosting on a private contract. Email from dynamic address is usually blocked and rightly so. Mixing business with private service is not a good idea. Throughput at home is usually way less and so is reliability.

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DynDns can help overcome the static IP barrier. I've used this some years ago but can't vouch for its functionality today.

https://account.dyn.com/

They ceased their free service in 2014 and were acquired by Oracle in 2016[0]. Since then I have used DuckDNS[1] instead and it has worked well for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company) [1] https://www.duckdns.org

Cloudflare Tunnels are free.

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