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I could make this quick: Is your internet access behind a CG-NAT? If yes: you're gonna need a static IP.
Not necessarily, Cloudflare tunnels, headscale/tailscale will sort that issue out amongst several other ways
But how will a tailnet help for a blog? At some point, the https port needs to be open.
tailscale will tunnel through and you can set it to pass through https. Lots of different ways to achieve this, as long as you have control over the dns and are able to set https up it will work. This is why for me I still use cloudflare, you can even setup a subdomain through their tunnels and they act as a cdn. For example, I run a linkstack instance, send instance and much more
https://linkstack.relayeasy.com/@3dcadmin
Tailscale funnel is made for this.
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.
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
Quick, but sadly incorrect
Care to explain what I got wrong?
Static IP is helpfull but not necessary. Even with NAT and a changeing IP there's options, such as:
You can't port-forward if you sit behind a nat.
Port forwarding was invented for exactly that
Hou will you configure the ISP's NAT router to port-forward? You won't be able to reach the forwarded port if your ISP doesn't foward the port as well.
That has it's own name... CG-NAT. Thus why people are responding to you as if you're wrong. As you wrote it you are wrong though. But there's still answers like argo tunnels (if you are okay with cloudflare) and other similar solutions.
Or you can setup a vps and tunnel through that.
Oh, I see. Sorry I was too dumb to research that term for the comment.
But then the VPS needs a static address.
But getting a static address for your VPS is likely much easier than getting it from certain ISPs.
For instance, Quantum Fiber doesn't support static IPs at all... But most VPSes can and do.
Aah, ISP's NAT. Yes, in that context, it's correct that you can't port forward.
Perhaps you can STUN through, but unlikely to get a good port.
My router says it has NAT enabled (in the WAN settings section - for the internet connection)
It's not about your router. But rather if your ISP connects several households with the same IP.
Check this answer for more info