#OwnCast experts I'm having a difficult time finding information about how to host @owncast locally (as in do all the stream encoding) but serve it through a cheap VPS, so that I'm not exposing my residential IP address. Is that possible? I would appreciate any tips or links to resources.
I'm using a digital ocean droplet with the Owncast referral code but I won't be using it enough to justify ~$20/mo after the promotional credit runs out.
@shom I'm sure you could hack something together, but that's not Owncast is built to run, so it wouldn't be something you could do out of the box. You can absolutely host Owncast locally (I run an instance from my apartment), but it's public on the internet. A couple of people have mentioned a VPN or other type of tunnel, so maybe that's the answer. But honestly, I'm not sure, it's not really an Owncast-specific thing.
@owncast that makes sense, thanks for the feedback. Yeah the idea would be run a VPS as a front end and reverse proxy it back to the home network (I'm going to do it with tailscale). I'll write a blog post when I get it working in case it helps anyone else. Thanks for a great product and also one click installs, I used the digital ocean link to get some kickback to the project.
@shom@owncast So you want to locally host own cast, then have it forward toa vps front end?
Setup nginx on the vps that directs the domain to your owncast machine
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