How the actual fuck do people self-host at home in my area? Behind a CGNAT, through the only available ISP (because monopoly), with a clause in the contract explicitly forbidding you to host anything. I definitelyyyyyy cannot afford a VPS either...

Do Tor/I2P/VeilID/etc help in this scenario? We do get IPV6 addresses as well.

@MxRemy CloudFlare Tunnels is probably the easiest way to get around CGNAT. There are a few ways you can get moderately spec’d VPS for free, Oracle and Google has offerings and there is no shortage of corps offering “free trials” to take advantage of.

@gravitas are there any non-corp methods?

@MxRemy I use wireguard but you need a connectable endpoint on a VPS for that. Tor could work for some things if latency isnt a big deal. If you can’t afford a VPS then a VPN that offers port forwarding is probably out too but that would be the other alterntative to using CF or one of the other mega-corps. A lot of people like TailScale, I’d consider that too corpo but it does have a decent free option (for now) and a lot of selfhosted things have built in support for it.

@gravitas thanks!! That's definitely more than I knew before at least.

Is latency the only problem with using one of the altnets? I don't have anything high traffic in mind, just wasn't sure whether they were any more viable in my situation than the regular way of self-hosting.

@MxRemy I can only say in regards to Tor, if you’re only runing a few things it should be fine but each service would need its own tor hostname which is just a long hash string and anything you want to use the services with will have to also support tor and be configured for it, so it’d be a hassle but certainly could be workable.