Expose Services to the internet

Guides & How-To
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I’m wondering if anyone has attempted to expose individual services to the internet by using either https://pagekite.net/, purchased domain or through dynamic DNS service such as https://www.noip.com/

I can’t figure out how I could connect to each individual service. Any help here is appreciated.

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We are not aware of anyone hacking together a setup like this at this time, however, we are building this type of functionality into StartOS directly - in a powerful and flexible way. This will be coming beginning with v040. No ETA on release at this time.

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I wrote a guide on how to connect your StartOS, but this guide doesn’t address individual services:

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Check out this post as well

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Thanks for providing me with ways to achieve clearnet access to my server.

I was thinking that this could actually represent an opportunity for Start9 to create a payed service where StartOS users could purchase subdomains (for example subdomain.onstart9.com) that would point to their Service. You would basically have something as described by @StuPleb on setting up the VPS being run on a server of yours and having the configuration automated by it.

Does it make sense or did I just space out into dreamland ?

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I’ll only say two things on this.

  1. We of course want to build a sovereign way to do this first, such that the option is merely a convenience, not a requirement

  2. It’s a good idea and it may have crossed our minds - stay tuned

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I tried to do this, but strangely a reverse proxy wont redirect to the .local address of the individual services, it just takes you back to the main console login, even though it is a different domain. Must be dns or port number thing that I don’t understand yet.

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Any update one and a half years later? Start9 is basically beta software at this point. Without clearnet possibility, the node is basically crippled. Seems odd that this has not been made a top priority and remains an outstanding issue after so long!

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I’m not sure that “secure” and “private” by default for the average user are the same as “crippled”. At least I’d argue that it isn’t.

A more advanced user has always been able to stand up a basic linux server and run what they want, they don’t need StartOS.

For those that do need StartOS, we’re working on the ability to allow them to do various clearnet things without needing to be a linux admin. But it’s not a feature that can just be quickly added, or something that can just be switched on, it has gone along with an entire rewrite of the OS to allow for it and other things… from the retirement of Docker containers to be replaced with native linux containers that can do much more (including networking for clearnet), to a new packaging system that will allow more developers to more easily package software for StartOS.

No one has been slacking for the past year, and the next version of the OS has indeed been the top priority.

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