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Well I have figured out a way to host this at home. Now if novalogic can figure out how to fix the game. If not oh well

This website is running off of my Synology NAS at home. I also have a new cool domain name If someone can at least try it out to see if the website comes up from outside of my network that would be great.

http://www.jaysnetwork.com/phpratbeta/

Yep. It worked. Tried to login to see if it at least tried to connect. It did.
COOL!

It also uses a dynamic domain too. My router has a login that will tell the no-ip.com what my ip address is. So if it does change which typical for home internet as they are dynamic IPs and not static it will update it. Not exactly sure how often that is. But hopefully a few times a day. I would say I could host internet websites again... But my issue is with the unload. Getting only 20 mbps isn't fast enough for that kinda stuff. Just super small websites with small data. I couldn't host gigabyte download files. If I had several people downloading at same time I would lose my TV lmao. I would be sooooo pissed.

Well Xfinity announced they are increasing speeds for upload. It seems my 20 Mbps speed could be going up to 100 Mbps in the future. If thats the case I could probably host sites. Thats all I was paying for at my datacenter. It was just a 100/100 max speed connection. Hmm thats interesting.

Very Cool. Now all you need is something to host.

Can someone test this one. This is a different domain. It uses .net instead of .com. It also uses https:// using Let's Encrypt. I also have this domain forwarded to my web server via HAProxy. Something I just learned how to use over the weekend with my OPNsense firewall. Instead of using the traditional port forwarding techniques we would normally use with port 80 or 443 to your webserver via IP address or hosting a dfx or dfx2 server on port 32768. (Port forwarding also only allows you to point a single port to a single machine.) You use rules inside HAProxy that can evaluation traffic form a web address, in this case jaysnetwork.net or www.jaysnetwork.net and when it sees that it will forward that off to your local ip address hosting the website. This is known as a reverse proxy. Also it will offload the ssl cert (AKA https://) to a server that doesn't have the cert and put it back on, on the way back out to your browser.

An example you can use when using HAProxy is if you had a web server and a plex server.

You can use www.jaysnetwork.net to go to a server port 80.
Then use a subdomain plex.jaysnework.net to go to 32400

Please try link below to make sure folks on the outside can get to my web server.
https://jaysnetwork.net/phpratbeta/

Yep, went through with no hesitation at all.

Thanks Bubba.

New test. Just changed over from haprox to cloudflare tunnels. This allows you to keep your firewall ports closed while still allowing data to get through via encryption. Just a much safer option than allowing any data to come through a port. Plus cloudflare takes all the beatings if you get attacked. Where my old solution would be my internet connection. It is also much easier to setup that a reverse proxy.

Please try both links.

https://www.jaysnetwork.net/phpratbeta

https://jaysnetwork.net/phpratbeta/

Both went thru with no hesitation at all.