That duress feature is neat!!

So more of a "cattle" than "pet" approach in general?

This is my favourite comment. I laughed out loud. Thank you.

The article honestly reads like it was written by an AI tool.

Get a static ip if at all possible. The work arounds with a dynamic IP are simply not as good. Or if your ISP and router fully support IPv6 you could alternatively go down that route.

This is one of those things I didn't know I needed. I have so many usb sticks lying around with various troubleshooting isos. This is a game changer.

Yeah looks like I'll be waiting for a sale and buying new.

Not sure. But I often see people recommending buying a second hand dell optiplex or similar for home servers, and it doesn't seem to make economical sense here. But don't have any objective data to offer, just an impression.

Interesting point about trademe listing vs actual sale prices.

Why do some ISPs charge a monthly fee and others a one off fee? I paid one off with my ISP several years ago for my static IPv4.

Yeah I always coveted one but couldn't justify the cost over second hand dell or lenovo SFF PCs.

Oh wow genuinely interesting. Thanks, I've learned something. I had the wrong impression.

I run 4 websites on my one VPS, and 2 websites on another more restricted cloud container service. Three wordpress, one DICOM server and viewer (radiology image database), one moodle, and one complex git mediawiki setup. Plus some sandbox stuff. Get about 10,000 unique views a day in total across all sites.

I don't know enough about network security to run that safely nor how to get great uptime at home as I run it all single handed and my day job has little to do with computers (am a medical doctor). I do expose some docker apps to the internet that run on my home server but they are only used by friends and family.

When I've needed temporary simple static web pages I've used jekyll on github pages and found it great.