I have an old laptop lying around and I have been meaning to self host some stuff on it but never got around to it.

My biggest limitation is that I only have WIFI and I do not control the network. It’s basically your default residential WIFI network.

The only thing I actually need is self-hosted cloud. What can I utilize this laptop for?

  • poVoqAEnglish
    91·
    6 months ago

    You can, but if you don’t control the main router and can’t do any port forwarding, it will be hard to make it accessible from outside your LAN.

    • habitualTartare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      6 months ago

      Tailscale + truenas is a simple solution that should allow OP access outside the network without any network config. E

    • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Yeah the best hope is that upnp is turned on. I think that’s the protocol that allows automatic port forwarding to happen