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Welcome! pdx.social is an online community for people living in the greater Portland, OR region. 🌲 Established April 6th, 2017 🌲

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My main barrier to is a static ip. My ISP charges ~ $75/mo for it and without it some requests are going to fail until the dynamic DNS updates - and it seems my IP changes often.

For something only I use, that's fine, but not for hosting a community service.

So, I pay DigitalOcean $6/mo until I find a better VPS provider and my mostly idles 🤷

Karl Keefer

@jaredmoody centurylink runs fiber to my house and charges $15/mo for static IP (+ $75 initial setup).

Still steep for what it is but much more doable. It's still hard to make the "value" case for self-hosting at that price, though.

@karlkeefer ah, I have centurylink too - I must have read that wrong and the $75 is one-time.

I briefly started looking into tech co-ops providing VPS services. A local company would be cool too.