How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?

Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by codazoda on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:51PM (#34686961)

That’s interesting. Do use a dynamic IP at home in this case or static? If it’s dynamic, what does the update process look like?

Edit: It looks like this might be automatic. This is something interesting I should look into a bit. It’s probably just extra complexity for my little server, but I’ve got some uses in mind.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by dvdkon on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:40AM (#34691065)

I do something similar, the actual server connects to the tunnel VPS, not the other way around. The server doesn't actually have a public IP address.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by tenacious_tuna on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:41PM (#34700190)

like dvdkon says, only the VPS has a static public address, and my homelab reaches out to keep the tunnel alive.

Tehcnically my homelab is also on a static public IP as well--this was more an exercise in "could I do this" than "actually necessary," but it's still cool as hell and I'm very happy.

About the only hangup was I had to configure Wireguard to keep the tunnel alive, otherwise sometimes the VPS would receive incoming traffic and if my lab hadn't reached out in a while (which, why would it?) the tunnel would be down, and the proxy connection would die. Thankfully that's built-in functionality.

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