Category: Updates

It’s been a week and a half since I posted “Self-Hosting Whatever, Wherever” discussing my approach to moving my self-hosted services out of the cloud and back into our house, using our asymmetric cable modem connection, an overlay network, and a small edge router in the cloud to proxy requests and responses back to our home network without exposing the home network to the rest of the internet in the process. As I’ve made some more progress, an update is in order.

*The Story So Far*

As most of you know, I’ve been a big proponent of self-hosting services for one’s self and one’s closest friends and relatives for, well, as long as I’ve been connected to the internet. At various points over the last thirty years I have hosted things in my home, at my place of work, and in the cloud, back and forth and back again, depending on what was convenient and cost effective and satisfying. Right now, most of my self-hosted services are running in the cloud, the least satisfying option, but the convenience was far better than not getting them set back up at all after moving to the east coast and rural life, so the cloud served its purpose.

But now, it’s time to bring things back home.