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Or hire a static ip and expose whatever ports you feel like.

Its amazing how far we've fallen from the internet of the 90s when you could get this done on most ISPs with all of a phone call.

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I once had a PCI dialup modem back in the early day of the internet. No router involved, so the IP I got was exposed to the internet. To share a web server was simple, basically start it then http://<my-ip-address>.

I also ended up with several worms infecting the Windows version I was running, part of why I switched to Linux and haven't looked back since.

I’ve been wondering this too. My biggest hesitation is that I don’t want to compromise the security of my local network; especially because it’s not just me using it.

Do you know of any resources that cover how to do the security necessary for hosting at home?

Dynamic DNS is a good alternative. A free one I like is https://www.duckdns.org/

Or just doing a bit of research on which ISP provides static ips with the ability to serve continent. Not everything has to be Google scale.

Not sure what country you're in but in the US at least ISP options are rather limited in any given area. The two widest reaching (geographically) options, cell and Starlink, both use CGNAT as far as I know. Plus they're more limited in data usage.

Most of them require you upgrading to a business account, and are generally quite a bit more expensive than standard residential internet service plus a VPS.

I used to do this. It requires configuring your router to set up port forwarding. That's assuming you have access to your router.

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