Why? I use it all the time and never had issues with it

Yes, it seems to be a hit or a miss. I don’t think I live near any central infrastructure or ISP, especially not this specific part of the city.

No, I’m currently using Tailscale but have been considering switching to Netbird to not be reliant on Tailscale.

he specified static website, which rules out WP

Oops missed that

EDIT: And I missed Immich too

You don’t have to be successful to get hit by bots scanning for known vulnerabilities in common software (e.g. Wordpress), but OP won’t have to worry about that if they keep everything up to date. However, this is also necessary when renting a VPN from said centralised services.

You can simply set up a VPN for your home network (e.g. Tailscale, Netbird, Headscale, etc.) and you won’t have to worry about attacks. Public services require a little more work, you will need to rely on a service from a company, either a tunnel (e.g. Tailscale funnel) or a VPS.

Ip address doesn’t expose where you live.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=geoip+lookup

Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet¹ but it does not keep your ip private².

This is also incorrect.

1. The entire purpose of CF tunnels is to expose sites on the internet
2. CF tunnels (and services like it e.g. ngrok) rely on shared proxy servers that forward traffic based on HTTP host headers (which is why you can’t forward arbitrary TCP traffic). The IP of the site will therefore have the shared IP of the company’s proxy server instead of your own.

This is false. Some ISP’s change IP’s often, but some don’t and sometimes geoip lookups can be really accurate. My IP has remained the same since I moved in, and a geoip lookup results in a coordinate less than a kilometer away. It does matter.

Yes, but if you host a public site it might be a better option, the content is public anyway, and you won’t get doxed if you publish something controversial. It’s a trade-off, between keeping traffic private or keeping your IP private. Wireguard works best for private traffic, but you can’t host a public site with that.

I thought ghost was for blogging only

Wouldn’t that be slow?

Yes, but it does expose your own IP address and thus where you live. Tunnels don’t.

GIFS have terrible compression though, you should try converting it to WebP

Reminds me of the Rock Pi S

Didn’t they go closed source recently?

For me it can be the opposite, I often focus better with artificial light than with sunlight.

I meant “ISP’s use CGNAT over IPv6” as ISP’s use CGNAT instead of IPv6 to solve IPv4 address limit issues, not as using IPv6 through CGNAT, although some do use IPv6 through CGNAT for backwards compatibility with IPv4 only devices.

There is IPv4, it’s an internet address that points to a specific computer, or at least it’s supposed to. IPv4 supports up to 4294967296 addresses, which might seem like a lot until you realize how many devices are connected to the internet. Almost the entire IPv4 range is full, and ISPs have resorted to letting 1 IP point to multiple computers also known as NAT. It’s what your router does, and why your laptop and phone all connect to the internet using your routers’ IP address. Carrier Grade NAT takes it one step further and allows hundreds or more home networks to connect from a single IP address.

CGNAT kind of sucks because you can’t run servers behind them because it doesn’t know which of the hundreds of computer traffic has to go to. IPv6 would solve this entire mess, but ISP’s won’t invest in it because they don’t want to spend the money and just delay the inevitable until they have to.

True ELI5: We ran out of signs for house numbers and instead of getting new ones we started giving everyone in a street the same house number

It’s great for trails

You can buy a significantly more powerful and power efficient device for less than $100. It’s not really useful for anything besides nostalgia imo.