Purchasing a self-hosted server to avoid having to pay a truckload of money in storage space. Well, not only did I have to rent a smaller VPS anyways to bypass my ISP restrictions on incoming traffic (curse you CG-NAT!) but I also managed to brick two $100-ish microservers in two different attempts to patch them against BIOS vulnerabilities. If I ever manage to get the circuitry to save those devices though, they might work as a nice TV box each
Are you me? That’s the reason my basement looks like a storage locker from a tv show with a huge metal box in it which makes funny noises.
And the part about the isp is true as well. 3.95 a month just to circumvent some bullshit restrictions and to prevent having to switch to a ridiculously overpriced business plan just to get a static IP.
But it was a great learning experience and I now know my way around wire guard and basic iptables V4 and V6.
Purchasing a self-hosted server to avoid having to pay a truckload of money in storage space. Well, not only did I have to rent a smaller VPS anyways to bypass my ISP restrictions on incoming traffic (curse you CG-NAT!) but I also managed to brick two $100-ish microservers in two different attempts to patch them against BIOS vulnerabilities. If I ever manage to get the circuitry to save those devices though, they might work as a nice TV box each
Are you me? That’s the reason my basement looks like a storage locker from a tv show with a huge metal box in it which makes funny noises.
And the part about the isp is true as well. 3.95 a month just to circumvent some bullshit restrictions and to prevent having to switch to a ridiculously overpriced business plan just to get a static IP.
But it was a great learning experience and I now know my way around wire guard and basic iptables V4 and V6.