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Hello!

I am trying to self-host including e-mail, but my ISP doesn’t let me customize Reverse DNS. So I am thinking of getting a VPN service.

According to Yunohost documentation, if you run Yunohost at home behind a VPN, you don’t require to do manual port routing.

I found a VPN service I like, however their documentation says you need to forward ports to have a server. I guess that is not really a problem if they tell me how to do it, the problem is they say you cannot request a specific port number, you can only generate a random port number. I guess that is really a problem.

Is Yunohost documentation ok and this VPN service is just an exception?

Do you have any recommendation on VPN service?

I would need them to do Reverse DNS too, so that email works.

Thank you!

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Run your own OpenVPN Open Access server on a VPS.

Easiest VPN is Digital Ocean. I use them for doing this, but I haven’t set up reverse DNS.

Here’s how to easily install the OpenVPN on Digital Ocean
https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/openvpn-pihole

How to setup your port forwarding

Here’s how to do the reverse DNS there.

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You can also choose pay for a vpn service which can configure a reverse dns for your domain name, like arn (in France): https://arn-fai.net/vpn. Perhaps easiest ? You will not need to open ports with this solution… Ask them before if it is compatible with your country, I don’t know ?

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Thank you very much @arkadi and @rodinux!

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