Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by rubatuga on Sunday August 29, 2021 @10:17PM
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Not directly competing with Helm, but we at Hoppy Network provide a static IP over WireGuard. It came out of a desire for "truly private email". We provide:
Clean IPv4 + IPv6 address, Reverse DNS, unblocked ports, unfiltered ICMP
It's priced reasonably to keep bad actors out:
We have a $60/year plan in the works, which will be available before the end of this year.
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by 3np on Monday August 30, 2021 @03:20AM
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Awesome, I was just looking for something like this the other day! SEO feedback: Try to be discoverable via term like "ipv4 tunnel provider", you may get more search leads. In my mind I was looking for an inverse Hurricane Electric.
Also, do you have any plans at all to accept payments via cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin? That would make you guys a no-brainer.
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by rubatuga on Monday August 30, 2021 @11:16AM
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Thanks for the SEO feedback, definitely something we will look into! We currently use Stripe, and I don't think Stripe has any plans to bring back crypto payments :(
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by gsreenivas on Sunday August 29, 2021 @11:58PM
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Very cool - looking forward to seeing the new plan. I think this is a great solution for people who want to bring their own hardware.
When you consider that we include a domain registration and offsite encrypted backups, our subscription pricing is fairly comparable.
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by p1mrx on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:52AM
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I like the idea of decoupling residential IP service from a physical ISP, but I'd be worried about getting blocked by Netflix, like Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker. Has Hoppy managed to avoid those problems?
However, the service provided as part of the subscription, a static IP address forwarding to your device without terminating the TLS connection is actually cool. For about 30$/year (24$ sounds good), I'd absolutely buy that alone, since that's the key to the tag line - truly private e-mail.
I can build a home server myself (and in fact already have, with more features, though not nearly as elegant as a Helm). I'd be just fine with someone else running that service.
Hardware wise, besides the storage, Helm looks like a great little home server, especially for the (hopefully not subscription-subsidized ...) price. If it had slots for my own drives I'd seriously consider buying one. The yocto-based software is a bit of a downside, as I'd prefer something like a Debian for maintenance reasons, but setting that up manually would sure be possible.