What is the best VPN with static IP and port forwarding for Starlink users who like to host their own services?

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I was hoping the Starlink community would have experience bypassing some of the limitations of CGNAT using a VPN. I was successfully able to use PureVPN to set up a static IP with enough ports forwarded to run a Valheim server, having trouble with ARK ASA.

I’m still within the 30-day money-back guarantee phase of PureVPN and I keep thinking to myself that this can’t be the best out there. So my questions are:

  1. Does anyone know of a good VPN with options for both a static IP and port forwarding? PureVPN only allows 15 ports to be forwarded using a coma delimited list with no range and no ability to differentiate between TCP and UDP.
  2. Has anyone using this approach had issues with getting banned from various services? - I logged out of my wife’s Reddit account briefly while my VPN was still active and got a suspicious network activity warning/block from Reddit. Luckily so far no further action has been taken, but I’ve seen horror stories about accounts getting permanently banned from Reddit as well as several gaming services for using a VPN. (This could have less to do with the VPN having a blocked IP and more to do with the fact that the connection was opened on the west coast and closed from the east coast)
  3. My ultimate hope would be to set the VPN connection directly in our Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro, but my second question has me nervous about this approach. Does anyone more experienced in this area see any problems with this approach?

I just want a hassle-free way of exposing services like locally hosted game servers, plex, SFTP, SSH, etc. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

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Second vote for tailscale, works great for Plex to my iPad/iphone

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I posted my experience here

It works like a charm for me.

Feel free to pm me if you have questions, but it is a bit straightforward.

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Tailscale works great for me

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Setup a Cloudflare tunnel. Free (other than getting a donation name) and works great with Starlink.

A good video on setting it up: https://youtu.be/ZvIdFs3M5ic?si=rSfegX4Z_YQqG9xD

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Thirded, works a charm

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I’m not hosting it for the world. I’d just like to access my own services as I always have with other ISPs. It’s a legitimate question.

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It doesn’t have static port for forwarding

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Would tailscale work for video game dedicated servers? Max 3-4 players who are all really close real life friends. They’d be fine downloading an app if necessary.

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If it’s just for personal use look at tailscale.com

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Thanks for pointing this out. I’ll still look into cloudflare and a worst case option. It would be nice to get some of my dev environments accessible outside the house. Even if it’s not the end all solution, it’s a step forward!

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It has the following services types when setting up a host name:

  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • UNIX
  • TCP
  • SSH
  • RDP
  • UNIX + TLS
  • SMB
  • HTTP_STATUS
  • BASTION
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Probably, it makes all machines visible to each other on thier own private network, so should work.

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Thanks. This looks promising.