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I‘m thinking about hosting my own #pleroma or #matrix (conduit.rs) instance... I feel like a child re-discovering the internet. It‘s so cool.
Do any of you know if there are privacy risks to hosting services from your home network? Like, is the DNS/IP ownership public, or can you infer the server‘s position from the IP address? If so, would it make more sense to rent a virtual machine from somewhere?
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@oxytocin yes, the ip will be public as other instances/homeservers need to contact your servers. It can be used to get a general location of the services through geoip databases, but accuracy varies.
What I do for pixie.town is run the server at home, but all its in- and outgoing traffic goes through a WireGuard vps I rent at Hetzner, thus providing faster caching there and obscuring the ip
