alt Hacker NewsWe own all of our own hardware and we rent space in a colocation center in Charlotte, NC. We used to run out of my house since I had 8Gbps unmetered from Google Fiber but ultimately went to colocation since it was relatively cheap and has the backup power/network infrastructure.
Ooh very interesting! Thank you for your response but I have some questions
My family (sort of) has some relations with internet providers in the area so if I actually do follow this, its not something that I am exactly fearing about.
Now regarding the fact that you ran it out of your house, I suppose you had a completely different firewall/fibre to prevent your devices to get any sort of (malware?) since the servers would be running untrusted code
I am more so interested in these two aspects:
Were you worried about the fact that your public ip was available or anything similar? Like I had this fear that it was equal to effectively ddosing myself even though my ip of the current router only gets geolocated to a place 150 kms away from me, I (still?) have that fear
I am not thaat familiar with networking but did you have your own ip ranges or did you provide ipv4 ranges to your customers?
Also how were you managing the fact that maybe your house could've been swatted (I am not sure about the security of north carolina) but I have this deep (irrational?) fear that anyone might do nefarious things since effectively I think that we are only as strong as our weakest link and I am curious if something like this happened with you or did you have any such thoughts?