Hi, I live in Germany and only have public IPv6. My address changes only very, very rarely and has never changed in the time I’ve been self-hosting.

I also have a very small, pretty cheap VPS with static IPv4/IPv6 – which would seem like a great fit for some sort of tunneling/proxy setup. Now comes the question: What/how should I use it? I would like to not have the additional latency for IPv6 enabled hosts, can I just setup a reverse proxy for IPv4? Would Tailscale work for my usecase, what are some resources you found useful when using it?

Currently, I’m just hosting everything IPv6-only and hoping my address never changes, but that does not work for everyone, as especially many new buildings with fiber optic connections still only have IPv4 (strangely).

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    1 day ago

    Ionos.de has a €1 a month VPS

    I think 1 core, 1gb ram, and 10gb.

    Use either caddy or Nginx proxy manager. Both are easy to setup. Also both are dockerized.

    I use Tailscale as my tunnel.

    Total latency is about 70-90ms for me.

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      1 day ago

      I did something very similar via netcup tiny vps, nginx and wireguard. I could post my setup notes tomorrow if someone needs them.