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plugger123

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Anybody know what ISPs have an option where you can get a static IP from them for your fiber?
 
plugger123 said:
Anybody know what ISPs have an option where you can get a static IP from them for your fiber?
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What do you need it for? That Dynamic DNS + long-term addressing from the ISP won't give you? I'm not on static but my IP remains the same for weeks at a time if not more.

Also, if you're going to host make sure the ISP doesn't block certain inbound ports, or outbound services such as SMTP etc.
 
Mail server, web server and some other Internet of things stuff... A dynamic DNS won't do.
 
Axxess have the option on all fibre packages where they NAT a public for inbound and outbound traffic and you can turn it on and off via their control panel. They also allow you to setup PTR/reverse DNS for the IP.
 
I suggest getting a hosted server with AWS or the like (with an elastic IP). It can even be a micro/entry level package which is very affordable especially if you won't be doing much processing on the vm. Run something like a Mikrotik CHR router on there. Then you can use their IP as your static IP for services access. Create a VPN between the hosted server and your home (or business...) server, and dst-nat any ports you want forwarded between the two vpn endpoints. Clients will think they're accessing services hosted in a datacenter, and you'll have the choice to route that traffic wherever you want, which is great for failover setups. That's what I do with my mini ISP (just hosting some websites and E-mail for a few small clients - needed a static IP but didn't want to pay the cloud providers for the storage and compute power). I have one server at my place, and one at my business partner's place, both in a replicated cluster, hosted on fibre - so if I have a power failure or something, it automatically fails over the VPN between the two sites. There's just a small catch when it comes to E-mail - you'll need to purchase one of the bulk E-mail services, or contact the cloud provider support to have your IP whitelisted for port 25/SMTP as that's usually closed by default to combat spam. You'll also want to run an SMTP relay on the cloud VM (or route your internal server's default route out through it) so that the internal mail server can send its mail out from the same static IP. Once that's done you're basically home free

Anyways that's just one possible "out of box thinking" approach which can work, but obviously getting your own static IP provisioned to you from your ISP could be a lot simpler & more straight-forward approach for most people
 
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Would your @fragtion proposal work when using ssl certificates... obviously I am showing my ignorance here but even though I work in tech I haven't spent much time learning stuff that is not my core work, I mostly follow web recipes and get things to work.

Hosting over 2TB of data which would be a mission to get to a cloud provider, and also a can of worms when it comes to liability and POPI. Loadshedding means a few more points of failure in the path, and I would like to replicate like you do.

A quick look on google suggest https with a dynamic ip is possible. Our client had to whitelist us (for the staff with restricted internet access) which is not a process I want to repeat with them.
 
Vis1/0N said:
Would your @fragtion proposal work when using ssl certificates... obviously I am showing my ignorance here but even though I work in tech I haven't spent much time learning stuff that is not my core work, I mostly follow web recipes and get things to work.

Hosting over 2TB of data which would be a mission to get to a cloud provider, and also a can of worms when it comes to liability and POPI. Loadshedding means a few more points of failure in the path, and I would like to replicate like you do.

A quick look on google suggest https with a dynamic ip is possible. Our client had to whitelist us (for the staff with restricted internet access) which is not a process I want to repeat with them.
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It will work however you should expect to pay additional traffic charges for the cloud server. You could do a combination of an ISP static and cloud server too. All depends what you wish to achieve. As for POPI there are ZA regions or smaller providers who offer local cloud resources.
 
Vis1/0N said:
Would your @fragtion proposal work when using ssl certificates... obviously I am showing my ignorance here but even though I work in tech I haven't spent much time learning stuff that is not my core work, I mostly follow web recipes and get things to work.

Hosting over 2TB of data which would be a mission to get to a cloud provider, and also a can of worms when it comes to liability and POPI. Loadshedding means a few more points of failure in the path, and I would like to replicate like you do.

A quick look on google suggest https with a dynamic ip is possible. Our client had to whitelist us (for the staff with restricted internet access) which is not a process I want to repeat with them.
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Take a look at https://rport.io/ Its the biscuit!
 
quovadis said:
Axxess have the option on all fibre packages where they NAT a public for inbound and outbound traffic and you can turn it on and off via their control panel. They also allow you to setup PTR/reverse DNS for the IP.
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Awesome... Is this reliable? The reason I want a static IP is because a dynamic IP always leaves the issue of not being completely reliable.. (lots of things can go wrong there and always leaves doubt...)

FTTB are crazy expensive.. it is so expensive that the thought of: Who are they kidding pops up in my mind as soon as I see the ridiculous prices. Totally unrealistic. For the crazy price of FTTB I rather buy dedicated server hosting with all the bells and whistles that makes me instantly forget that the server is not local...
 
plugger123 said:
Awesome... Is this reliable? The reason I want a static IP is because a dynamic IP always leaves the issue of not being completely reliable.. (lots of things can go wrong there and always leaves doubt...)

FTTB are crazy expensive.. it is so expensive that the thought of: Who are they kidding pops up in my mind as soon as I see the ridiculous prices. Totally unrealistic. For the crazy price of FTTB I rather buy dedicated server hosting with all the bells and whistles that makes me instantly forget that the server is not local...
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Haven't had an issue as yet.

Edit: That's based on 5 years now.
 
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