It needs to be and should be automatic. But it’s not in the interests of media platforms to add such functionality

Try it on a Google search results page

Great extension and good recommend

I’ve been using portainer for this and really like it. It does tether you into using docker images but that’s not really a bad thing nowadays.

Also interested in the answer to this.

That seems extremely unlikely, and almost unheard of. If I wget the page I’m a container, I get the same as in browser, so that would suggest this isn’t the case.

That isn’t happening for me, nor has it ever when I’ve visited DHH’s blog. It’s possible your browser is compromised.

They’re using a third party called deft to manage the hardware. Which is a reasonable middleground between cloud and self-operated, the more I think about it.

I haven’t seen a lot of info on what the cost of that management is though but it’s likely to be leagues less than AWS/GCP

Upstream costs are indeed going up as you implied, and Namecheap has razor thin margins.

Part of the deal with services providing bare-minimum prices is that the consumer takes on supplier costs when they arise. Same in all thin-margin businesses.

What do you use port forwarding for out of interest? I’m using mullvad and it hasn’t come up for me, but I don’t understand the use case.