So my cable company has been jacking up the rates, and for a little-used office connection (one phone line and internet) I’m now paying nearly $300 per month.
So Starlink is looking attractive at $50 for 50 GB. However, I need to host a couple of SSH servers. I can use DDNS or possibly a cron job that puts the WAN address onto another server, but only if Starlink doesn’t muck with it or prohibit it.
Any experience using Starlink to host a server?
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Starlink uses carrier grade NAT which will prevent incoming traffic from accessing your server.
John
I’m hearing rumors about VPSes being used for that. Our hosting company (Digital Ocean, highly recommended) has a VPS service, but that’s the extent of my knowledge of it.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Starlink's superior speed motivated one of my clients to migrate about a year ago. They purchased the more expensive business plan. Among other benefits, the business plan allows you to bypass Starlink's router to provision a suitable public IP address on your own third party router. This approach avoids adding another vendor to the mix and renting "software as a service." But, you pay a higher fee to Starlink.
Fun fact: on a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere, at twilight, after the sun sets on Earth yet still shines on satellites, you can see small swarms of Starlinks snake by overhead.
Danke,
I have seen a Starlink "string of pearls" where 60 satellites orbit in a row before final deployment. I counted about 56 of them with the naked eye. I think a VPS could make a lot of sense as it would probably be far cheaper than a higher grade Starlink service. The other option is to use a tunnel to give your server a public address. L2TP is known to work over Starlink. If you are able to use a UK provider a limited bandwidth L2TP tunnel only costs GBP 2 per month.
We have some friends in Inverness in a neighborhood that didn't have decent internet service. One of his neighbors bought a microwave link pair and connected up to a friend across Tomales Bay, for the neigborhood.
The microwave links are crazy cheap.
Huh, packet-sniff THIS, piker!
Can definitely recommend VPS in general although I can't speak as to Digital Ocean. I've had my personal domain / server hosted on a VPS at iocoop.org, and I have a second VPS at tornadovps.com which provides some redundancy and secondary-DNS-server functionality. It's definitely cheaper than hosting a full physical server at a co-lo, both VPS providers have provisioned a stable public-routable IPv4 address and provide IPv6 as well, and both have excellent connections to major Internet switching points so bandwidth and latency are just fine.
It appears Starlink supports native IPv6 (ie no NAT or other messing) on the standard plan:
Theo
And yet you trust the South African Nazi not to data-mine?
John ;-#)#
Do you trust *any* provider not to do that?
Jeroen Belleman
That's because the waves are so small.
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