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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It absolutely is

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And its mostly the fault of ISPs

[–] SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What did ISPs change?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They stopped giving people static IP addresses by default, which makes at home self hosting too hard for normies.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure normies don't even know what an IP address is.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

They wouldnt have to. It would be possible to build ootb applications and devices that do the setup automatically. For something like an at home cloud storage, you could just plug it in at home and it could autodiscover and pair just by scanning some QR codes or something.

[–] why_not_start_over@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wasn't really static IP, but upload caps and bandwidth limits. And "updated Terms of Service." To your point, they started charging for static IPs or just not offering them for "home" service. In the early days (feeling old yet), self hosting wasn't shut down so much as shared hosting from home. People were running shared web and email hosts from home and ISPs didn't like that added cost and competition, mostly cost. Bandwidth was expensive going over copper exchanges.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

They never gave people static IPs by default in general. Done did if you were lucky but most didn't. (In the UK at least.) Hence the existence of things like dyndns.