Would you be able to host instances for stuff like mastodon and peertube on a raspberry pi more specifically the raspberry pi 5
Would you be able to host instances for stuff like mastodon and peertube on a raspberry pi more specifically the raspberry pi 5
Yes. However, hosting things from your home connection will make it difficult for you to visit many websites. Blocklists such as Datadome, Cloudflare, and F5 will give you endless captchas if they detect port 80 or port 443 open.
That…is just not how that works. Where’d you get this idea?
From several years of experiencing it in person. Datadome was the worst and most consistent. It stopped the moment I switched my webserver onto an exotic port number (above 10,000).
Datadome sent me captchas at every domain they firewalled. After correctly solving, I would always be completely blocked:
(not my screenshot)
I can promise you that making HTTP requests to other servers is not triggering a port scan back to you to check what is open. That’s kinda crazy.
It seems crazy to me too, but I tested it numerous times. Closing port 80 and 443 stopped the blocks, and re-opening them started the blocks again.
Were you maybe connected to a VPN when you made these requests? That’s way more likely the culprit.
No. Check my previous comment – this is about hosting on your home ISP, and turning that on or off directly affected the blocking. There is no way to host a webserver through any commercial VPN service.
I have 443 open and don’t have any issues with endless captchas or anything you’ve mentioned.
Not true for me.