Monday, February 24, 2020

Connect to my self-hosted website from inside my home network

So there are two main ISP's here where i live. I've gone back and forth a couple times. And now im back to the one where i can't connect to the domain i own, from inside my local network.

ie i own example.com and am serving up plex and other things at thing1.example.com and thing2.example.com

i can reach it no problem from work etc. but in home, no dice.

apparently some isp allow this local loopback(?) and some don't.

im not even sure what the terminology is for the use case to google it.

previously i was advised to use a $5 droplet as a proxy server, which i did for the few years. until i switched ISPs and didn't need to anymore. fast forward to now, and i switch isp again. meaning i need to setup a proxy again, or figure out a simpler/cheaper solution cuz i dont see the point of spending the $5 extra

thanks for any help



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