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Originally Posted by Quoth
The only viable solutions to CG-NAT (or other non-public IP on modem/router), or an ISP that won't let you forward ports, are either hosting or a co-located server.
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I gave up self-hosting years ago. These days a small shared VPS costs $5/month (plus tax if charged) at Linode. Having someone else deal with networking access, hardware maintenenance, 24/7 access, and system updates is worth that for me. No tunnels, no dynamic DNS, fixed IP, fast networking, no security holes into my home network, and so on. Linode provides DNS so that problem goes away as well. Of course the server is operating on a copy so I can't maintain my calibre library using the content server, but I wouldn't do that anyway. I don't use annotations so I'm not concerned about syncing them.
(Full disclosure: I pay $7.40 + VAT because I have them do backups.)