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My VPS provider is running a promotion where I can get up to 5 additional public IPv4 addresses for a one-time cost of $25 each. I have always only used a single public IP address per VPS. Would there be any advantage of having additional public IP addresses?

I know some people do not consider a VPS self-hosting, but this is the most relevant community I could think of and the question is also applicable for homelabs as well.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kids seem to think host name based routing is "new'... It worked fine in the 2000s with Apache.

Yup, I was reverse proxying early in my career, and I even built my own once for fun (I "hid" an SSH server on my HTTP server by looking at the first few bytes and proxying appropriately).

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a lot simpler nowadays. Download Caddy, put a 2 line config and you are good to go.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess that's "a lot simpler" than 6 lines of config?

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] vandsjov@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

300% optimise! Give this coder a raise!