Ask HN: VPNs for Hosting?

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Are there VPN services suitable for hosting a web server behind the VPN? Eg, a VPN which will provide a public IP and accept connections on ports 80 and 443? The intent is helping a friend setup a home web server that she does not want to be geolocatable due concerns over stalkers. I realize this is a niche use case.

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How reliable does it need to be? A bare-minimum Linux VPS for a few bucks a month and an SSH reverse tunnel would give you "hide me" functionality and its (IMO) a much easier setup to debug if something isn't working. It's probably also got some resources to e.g run a proxy cache (and thus reduce the amount of traffic to traverse the weakest link: the tunnel), if that's at all helpful

Yeah, I was thinking to do something like that if there were no packaged solutions.

For hosting, I’d suggest to look at hosting providers rather than VPN providers.

Here’s one: https://freerangecloud.com/cart.php?gid=11

Cloudflare’s Argo Tunnel is another great option.

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