Yeah. This is why you don’t encourage normies to port forward…they make everyone a domain admin and open up RDP…

At my remote site it has little value. At my home I have IPv6 setup on Starlink as my secondary backup internet. I use Fiber as the primary that has a public IPv4 and IPv6.

Could just use a VPS though I guess if you want.

These are going to be the people who think it’s smart to just open up RDP and SSH to the wide web though…they shouldn’t be forwarding ports…they should use a VPN.

I’d much rather deal with setting up a few VPN gateways which is trivial at most…than securing a public web service. I deal with that crap enough at work.

There are a lot less variables to contend with with a single VPN endpoint which undergoes considerably more security auditing than N public web services. Many of which I don’t have the time to review myself and mitigate if they decide to suck at coding.

Edit: I share my services with less than 5 households though.

Edit2: I’m not sure what public ipv4 or ipv6 has to do with this. My remote sites use starlink ipv4. I haven’t setup ipv6 on those internally at all. They all tunnel via wireguard to my homesite.

Idk. People write off my neck of the woods, historically very purple, as racist and red af constantly…further driving the independents more and more to the right. It doesn’t help that the Dems keep attacking sensible gun ownership.

Over my life I keep watching many many normal middle of the road people pushed right by the Federal Dems. They either fall in rank with Republicans or just stop engaging with anything outside local elections. It’s saddening but I’ve kinda just accepted it at this point.

Setup a VPN gateway at Grandma’s house. Works fine for me.

For the vast majority of users? Yes. They shouldn’t forward ports.

Setup a VPN gateway at Grandma’s house.

Unfortunately I still think there is still too much Dem infighting. I expect a big painful loss for Dems this, and maybe even the next, election cycle. Perhaps after that there will be enough focused anger to unseat a Republican president.