One of the biggest ISPs in my country has been promising IPv6 since 2016. Another, smaller, competitor, advertised on "World IPv6 Day" in 2011 that it was way ahead of the competition on supplying IPv6; but in fact does not supply it today.

One of the answers I see given a lot over the years is: Yes, I know that I could do this simply with IPv6. But ISPs around here don't route IPv6, or even formally provide statically-assigned IPv4 to non-business customers. So I have had to build this Heath Robinson contraption instead.

just host it on the VPS directly

Then doing straight-forward iptables or L7, or reverse proxy via Caddy, Nginx, etc, directly to the routable IP address.

The outcome is the ~same, bonus is not having to handle the lower level component, negative is an extra "thing" to manage.

But this is how I do the same thing, and i'm quite happy with the result. I can also trivially add additional devices, and even use it for egress, giving me a good pool of exit-IP addresses.

(Note, I was going to add this as a comment on the blog, but it seems their captcha service is broken would not display - so it was blocked)

https://fossorial.io/

For a while I also thought that regular SSH tunnels would be enough but they kept failing occasionally even with autossh.

Oh and I got bitten by Docker default MTU settings when trying to add everything to the same Swarm cluster.

I think I've seen some scripts floating around to automate this process but can't remember where. There are lots of good related tools listed here: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

At the time, my FiOS was about $80/month, but they wanted $300/month for a static IP. I used a VPS (at the time with CrystalTech), which was less than $50/month. Net savings: $170/month.

"Factors leading to a successful installation: Safe access to the roof without need for a helicopter."

[1] https://www.monkeybrains.net/residential.php#residential

What is going on here with these addresses? I'm used to seeing stuff like this in movies – where it always destroys my immersion because now I have to think about the clueless person who did the computer visuals – but surely this author knows about IPv4 addresses?

The vps and each host are each nebula nodes. I can put the nodes wherever i want. Some are on an additional vps, some are running on proxmox locally. I even have one application running as a geo-isolated and redundant application on a small computer at my friend’s house in another state.

Is there a way to be selective about what ports are exposed from the host to the target? The target could handle it but fine grained control is nice.

I think I will be done with sites that require me to solve captchas to visit for simple reading, just as I am done with sites that require me to run javascript to read their text.