25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
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25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
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#2What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet?
Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I'm about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again.
We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be prepared.
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#3What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet? Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I'm about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again. We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be pre…
As long as you have a static IP address, this is trivial and typically very reliable. Throw an ATS battery into the mix and the internet will be super reliant, even when the power goes down.
Am doing this at home with a fibre line and it's been super reliable.
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#4What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet? Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I'm about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again. We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be pre…
Cloudflare tunnels are easy to set up. Otherwise, serving directly can be an option if you have a public static IP from your ISP or a public dynamic ISP and are okay with doing dynamic DNS.
IMHO the key is to have a good router/firewall that gives you the flexibility you need—ideally a custom box like OP. My software preference is opnsense, but there are plenty of other good options.
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#5What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet? Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I'm about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again. We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be pre…
You can run a website off a cellular connection, you don't need fiber for that. The pendulum has never left decentralized from a tech standpoint, folks are just too lazy.
Home computer ownership is tanking, millennials were probably the last "power user" generation, and there's just no major interest in self hosting with the convenience of cloud. Even among tech professionals like HN.
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#6What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet? Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I'm about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again. We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be pre…
> Just then, a bandwidth load as heavy as a pregnant elephant sits down on Manfred's head and sends clumps of humongous pixilation flickering across his sensorium: Around the world, five million or so geeks are bouncing on his home site, a digital flash crowd alerted by a posting from the other side of the bar. Manfred winces. "I really came here to talk about the economic exploitation of space travel, but I've just been slashdotted. Mind if I just sit and drink until it wears off?"
- Charlie Stross, "Accelerando"
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#7What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet? Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I'm about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again. We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be pre…
You can run a website off a cellular connection, you don't need fiber for that. The pendulum has never left decentralized from a tech standpoint, folks are just too lazy. Home computer ownership is tanking, millennials were probably the last "power user" generation, and there's just no major interest in self hosting with the convenience of cloud. Even among tech professionals like HN.
r/selfhosted would like to have word with you. That sub is increasing steadily.
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#8What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet? Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I'm about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again. We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be pre…
You can run a website off a cellular connection, you don't need fiber for that. The pendulum has never left decentralized from a tech standpoint, folks are just too lazy. Home computer ownership is tanking, millennials were probably the last "power user" generation, and there's just no major interest in self hosting with the convenience of cloud. Even among tech professionals like HN.
I think the pendulum DID swing, as The Cloud became more popular and connections became radically asymmetric with very slow upload.
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#9What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet? Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I'm about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again. We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be pre…
I just run a normal website through a normal (major company) connection with their supplied router.
I have 10 minutes or so of power outage per year, otherwise it works fine. Maintenance effort is close to zero, security update apply automatically.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can run a website off a cellular connection, you don't need fiber for that. The pendulum has never left decentralized from a tech standpoint, folks are just too lazy. Home computer ownership is tanking, millennials were probably the last "power user" generation, and there's just no major interest in self hosting with the convenience of cloud. Even among tech professionals like HN.
r/selfhosted would like to have word with you. That sub is increasing steadily. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted
I'm a member, I even built a self hosted home organizer (https://homechart.app). It's a niche community with a very high cost of entry (time/money/skill).