For those of us behind double NAT (CGNAT) forwarding ports is not an option as we do not control forwarding on the second gateway. This will limit you to any of the solutions that include a device outside your network with a public port that tunnels traffic into your server.
If you don’t mind me asking, which model did you have these issues with? I’m sorry to hear you had a bad experience.
I like your idea, but minisforum has much better platforms for self hosting. The better options do cost twice as much. Not sure they are cost effective as far as purchase price goes.
I run one with an AMD chip set and very much like it. Its fairly low power usage, but I haven’t measured in a while. For what it’s worth, I really like mine.
To some degree yes. I ran an experiment to see and found there is just too much of the existing internet infrastructure not implementing IPV6 for this to be reliable. For instance, you can’t use it for email intake because only 2 major players do IPV6.
You still get dynamic assignments from the ISP and have to automate keeping your AAAA records up to date.
The short answer is, it depends. For what OP is doing here, I expect it would work.
If anyone else has messed with this, I’d love to here about it. Might be good as it’s own post.