[pc2g4d]

Meanwhile my Wordpress blog on DigitalOcean is up. And so is DigitalOcean.

My ISP is routing public internet traffic to my IPs these days. What keeps me from running my blog from home? Fear of exposing a TCP port, that's what. What do we do about that?

[doikor]

> What keeps me from running my blog from home?

Depending on the contract it might not be allowed to run public network services from your home network.

I had a friend doing that and once his site got popular the ISP called (or sent a letter? don't remember anymore) with "take this 10x more expensive corporate contract or we will block all this traffic".

In general why the ISPs don't want you to do that (in addition to way more expensive corporate rates) is the risk of someone DDoS that site which could cause issues to large parts of their domestic customers (and depending on the country be liable to compensate those customers for not providing a service they paid for)

[The_President]

> Our Engineering team is actively investigating an issue impacting multiple DigitalOcean services caused by an upstream provider incident. This disruption affects a subset of Gen AI tools, the App Platform, Load Balancer, Spaces and provisioning or management actions for new clusters. Existing clusters are not affected. Users may experience degraded performance or intermittent failures within these services.

> We acknowledge the inconvenience this may cause and are working diligently to restore normal operations. Signs of recovery are starting to appear, with most requests beginning to succeed. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and provide timely updates as more information becomes available. Thank you for your patience as we work towards full service restoration.

It's not down for you, but for others.

[trollbridge]

Yeah, DigitalOcean and Dreamhost are both up. I actually self-host on 2Gig fibre service, and all my stuff is up, except I park everything behind Cloudflare since there is no way I could handle a DDoS attack.