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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)

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (21 children)

I could make this quick: Is your internet access behind a CG-NAT? If yes: you're gonna need a static IP.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Not necessarily, Cloudflare tunnels, headscale/tailscale will sort that issue out amongst several other ways

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 points 4 months ago

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

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