I have an old laptop lying around and I have been meaning to self host some stuff on it but never got around to it.

My biggest limitation is that I only have WIFI and I do not control the network. It’s basically your default residential WIFI network.

The only thing I actually need is self-hosted cloud. What can I utilize this laptop for?

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I would advise against port forwarding without at least a proper firewall with isolation. It is very very dangerous to expose things to the internet and it will backfire at some point, sometimes without your knowledge.

      Back when I first started I used a service called kubesail https://kubesail.com/

      Now that I have way more hardware I just use a VPS on Linode to route traffic.

    • deelayman@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      CloudFlared is the application you run on your server, and CloudFlare tunnels are what it connects with. You get the same outcome as a ddns but it functions differently under the hood. You also need a domain name for this I think.

      DuckDNS might be a good option to start out with.