Hi everyone!
I’m looking into self-hosting, and I currently have dynamic DNS set up to point to my home IP.
My question: is it worth getting a dedicated IP through a VPN?
I’m pretty technically savvy, but when it comes to networking I lack practical experience. My thought is that pointing my domain to a dedicated IP and routing that traffic to my home IP would be safer - especially if I only allow traffic on certain ports from that IP. Just curious if that idea holds up in practice, or if it’s not worth the effort.
Safer in terms of what?
If you can’t justify it, then no, save your money.
Just in terms of broadcasting my home IP directly vs having a middleman, essentially.
You’re not “broadcasting” anything. You’re running a server.
Your browser is the thing sending your ip to every site you visit. And beyond simple geolocation data it’s not that useful to anybody.
Sorry, yeah, “broadcasting” was a bad word choice. What I meant was that if I port-forward, it exposes that socket to potential bad actors searching for exposed services.