Before I spiral into a comparison fest, can ya'll check me here: is it possible to run a reverse proxy for your home server, hiding its IP address? My brain isn't picking up on that, because it sees... a reverse VPN...

Anyhow, I obviously don't know what I am talking about, but want to host a server at home, and am willing to pay for bandwidth to protect the IP. What's this called? ^_^

@maiki Sounds like a Reverse Proxy to me. I give it a thumbs up. 👍🏽 You didn’t say explicitly so I’ll just say the obvious: the proxy’s IP number is public and the DNS entries are public, so you’ll pay for hosting of the Proxy somewhere, and that will also leave a “paper” trail of payment info etc.

@kensanata Cool, that's what I thought.

The problem I am solving is physical access to hardware. It is easier for me to run a server at home, and route DNS to a proxy, than to host a rack in a secure datacenter. The thing holding me back was being able to dox my location.

I am still not sure it is worth it, but these are steps to figuring it out. ^_^

@maiki Well, I host some Perl web apps running on port 8080 on the same server as Apache who redirects port 80 to port 443, which adds crypto, and then proxies to 8080 on the same host – and so it all works, but really these web apps could be anywhere and the setup was super easy. If you need a head start for your Apache config, I’ll be happy to provide something.