My servers (3U) in the DC pull ~400w but my provider doesn’t do power/traffic billing just a flat fee ~230€ For my homelab if I power up my backup server pull a backup and then write it to tape and my gf is gaming it’s 900w Idle is like 150w
For the urgent notifications that require immediate action I use apprise -> Pager duty (free tier) because it can overwrite the DnD settings on my phone and wake me up if im asleep. For all other notifications apprise -> matrix.
TorGuard offers residential dedicated IPs. And there are proxy services that have that as there business model for circumventing chaptas when scraping the web. I would look there https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies https://oxylabs.io/location-proxy/uk https://torguard.net/residential-ip-vpn/
What it basically comes down to is this: do I trust some random guy off the Internet to use my Internet connection which is tied to my legal government name and the legal reprocussions that comes with that to access the Internet as if they were me?
The only way I would do that is if I gave it its own vlan and only allow Internet traffic to specific whitelisted ips. Even then my legal protection insurance definitely won’t cover that.
If they block VPNs exit ips which aren’t necessarily public they most certainly will block all the Tor exit nodes which are public by design.
I wish