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)
I could make this quick: Is your internet access behind a CG-NAT? If yes: you’re gonna need a static IP.
Not necessarily, Cloudflare tunnels, headscale/tailscale will sort that issue out amongst several other ways
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.
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
But how will a tailnet help for a blog? At some point, the https port needs to be open.
Tailscale funnel is made for this.
Quick, but sadly incorrect
Care to explain what I got wrong?
Static IP is helpfull but not necessary. Even with NAT and a changeing IP there’s options, such as:
You can’t port-forward if you sit behind a nat.
Port forwarding was invented for exactly that
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.
My router says it has NAT enabled (in the WAN settings section - for the internet connection)
It’s not about your router. But rather if your ISP connects several households with the same IP.
Check this answer for more info