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ipv6.rs

From their site:

Instantly launch your favorite internet appliance with just a click using Cloud Seeder, our open-source server appliance platform for everyone, or use your skills and manually setup a home server lab. With IPv6rs, you will have the external IP you need to self host on your home computer or mobile device.

$10 a month, or $60 for a year, or $80 for 2 years.

Seems they give you an externally routable IP6 address, and then make that route to your home network, where you still have to run the server. They do have an app which is meant to make it easier to install podman containers for whatever service you want to run. For some reason, they call those “appliances”. Not a fan of that word.

Before anyone jumps in to say, “Pffft. I do this now for free” - this isn’t aimed at you then, is it? It’s aimed at making it possible for less technical people to self-host some of their digital life, which is a good thing in general, in my mind. Kind of like how Linux needed more user-friendly distros for the masses to increase adoption. Good on them, I say, and good luck.

  • dipak@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    From IPv6.rs FAQs I get the impression that they only provide IPv6 route through their tunnel. I think self-hosting something only reachable via IPv6 would cause you trouble accessing it in IPv4 only networks - which are still far more common compared to IPv6.

    Hurricane Electric provides such IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel facility with /48 block routed to your network. I’ve only used this service for testing my IPv6 knowledge, so performance-wise I’m not sure how good it is. Thus, if IPv6.rs provides a significant performance over the HE-TunnelBroker, then I’d suggest you go with IPv6.rs given a decent price for the service.

    If you are considering a simple to set-up tunnel utility for your self-hosting applications, I’d suggest you consider other tunneling options which have both IPv4 and IPv6 capabilities. Some widely used ones are Cloudflare Tunnel and Ngrok. You may also use Tailscale to connect both server and client via VPN. Using Cloudflare or Ngrok would involve some privacy concerns, as they can see the traffic passing through the tunnels in plain text.

    E: better words substitution