My home network situation is currently not ideal, as in my personal network/homelab is behind a double NAT. I’ve tried to get around this, but because I am not in an ideal living situation (thanks COVID), there’s little I can do about this.
In the past, I’ve run Game Servers for myself and friends and have run a couple of other services, all of which would be made much easier to run by a static (public) ip address.
In looking for solutions, I’ve decided that likely my best option will be to get a VPS and run my own private VPN to said server. This would give me the public ip, and, hopefully, make it fairly simple for friends, and anyone else who uses my servers, to connect. As an added bonus, if I move I can simply continue to connect to the VPS and the ip doesn’t need to change.
Although I’ve used VPNs and VPSs in the past, I have never used either for this sort of solution. As such, I’m wondering just how much CPU and RAM I should be looking at in any VPS service that I might set up on. Bandwidth will be a consideration as well, I’m ion a gigabit (fibre) connection at home. What other things might I need to consider for this?
Any other suggestions for solutions could be interesting too.