I’ve been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I’ve never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it’s impossible to flash most consumer grade routers.
id like to learn more stuff about cyber security, host other stuff, maybe host a website, but I’m just a guy who lives in an apartment. I’m stuck with 1 Internet service that claims it will terminate my service if they find me to be hosting anything. They must be semi-lax with that rule, because i haven’t gotten terminated for using ssh and cockpit.
Do you guys own a house, or are just fortunate enough to have access to an ISP that will let you host your own stuff?
My ISP (Fios) doesn’t seem to care what I do. I can even open ports 80 and 443, which I have done. I host my website on an Orange Pi 5 and have a Cloudflare Tunnel securing it. The rest of my exposed services are proxied by Nginx Proxy Manager.
I use Proxmox and set up various virtual machines and containers, then Docker containers within a VM for my services. Some of the stuff I don’t want Fios seeing is masked behind a VPN container (Gluetun).