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Running a server from one's own home violates the terms of service of many ISPs. Even if you are not a business, ISPs expect you to pay more for their business plan if you want to run a server.



This is the thing, so many people tell it's fine to run a server at home even if violated ISPs TOS. But it's not fine, if I'm away from home and need to access it, the worst that could happen is my ISP cutting that connection to my own machine. Even if things are great now, there's Wireguard, even baked in on linux with 5.6 kernel. There's just to many artificial boundaries that selfhosting at home can't catch on.

Last time I checked, I might violate the terms of my ISP, but that's by very strict definition. Remote access and "server hosting" could be one and the same depending on how you look at it.


That's where the subversive element comes into play. Exactly what the web needs.




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