Public services require a little more work, you will need to rely on a service from a company, either a tunnel (e.g. Tailscale funnel) or a VPS.

I have been hosting random public services for years publicly and it hasn’t been an issue.

Edit, I might have miss understood the definition of public. I have hosted stuff publicly, however everything was protected by a login screen. So it wasn’t something a random person could make use of.

If your looking for a remote access to a desktop/GUI Rustdesk.com Is a quick and easy option. Mesh Central is also a good but a little more involved as you need to setup a central server.

There are a few others options if you have a VPN access. Like XRDP servers that lets you use RDP clients, or you can use VNC as well.

I would also include support for Dynamic DNS and API access as well. Those both can come in handy depending on what your doing. I know this wasn’t as common years back but maybe it is more supported now.

I used Namecheap and I think they required that I have like $50 credit on my account before the API access would open up. Maybe that has changed, like I said this was years ago last time I need to look.

What do you think will be the alternatives. I have looked around and realistically Logitech kind of dominates the market as far as mice and keyboards.

Maybe smokeping?

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-smokeping

Buy a used computer and put 4 drives in it?

Been self hosting for over a decade at this point. Mix of custom built servers and surplus hardware over the years.

To name a few of my daily servers.

• home assistant
• paperless-ng
• jellyfin
• nextcloud
• blue iris
• audiobook shelf

With docker being so easy I have kind of lost track how much stuff i am hosting. A problem i never thought i would have :)