alt Hacker News>"that the vm can use my home connection for certain traffic. "
Huh. Why are you doing this, is the datacenter IP being (rightfully) blocked by some service to avoid abuse? Is your usecase breaking some services ToS?
Certainly adding more fire to the "never a GOOD reason to use this" thesis
> Certainly
So you make up reasons to be judgemental and then insist they're right?
It's practical to block entire datacenters. It's not so "right" that working around it becomes "wrong". If whatever the server's doing can fit through a single home connection then it's probably fine.
I'll give you a concrete use case: A few times a month I want to wget a file on imgur to my server. That's a valid action miles away from any kind of abuse, but the IP range is blocked so I use my desktop to do it. If I routed it over tailscale instead that would be equally valid.