Comment by ilaksh
1 year ago
It's impractical because residential internet speed is very asymmetrical and behind NAT. You will still need external service to get around the NAT thing and the fact you don't have a static IP.
1 year ago
It's impractical because residential internet speed is very asymmetrical and behind NAT. You will still need external service to get around the NAT thing and the fact you don't have a static IP.
You do not need a lot of speed to host a personal or hobbyist blog, and NAT is just something you configure once and it's done. I use my domain providers API to update the DNS records as soon as my public IP changes (with a tiny shell script on my server). I even host some semi-commercial sites from home and it is fine :)
I would much rather run the chance of some occasional downtime in exchange of being in control of the infrastructure and owning my own data. I really like the idea of a inter-connected net that is kinda spread all over, not super concentrated to a handful of data hubs.
Only some ISPs are like that