How practical is it to run personal website on raspberrypi and expose it to internet via ngrok? ACT internet doesn't allow incoming traffic apparently, so just dynamic DNS won't be enough and secure tunnel is needed.

I used to do something similar to access my local NAS drive when I was using Airtel broadband…. But they didn’t have great speeds in my area…. Only after switching to ACT did I realize that DDNS doesn’t work. But the quickest work around I saw was to get a business account with ACT. In Chennai I got 1 Gbps - 4TB every month with a static public facing IP for 3K INR (For 3K in the residential plan I got 3TB without the static IP). Unless you are not getting a ton of traffic to your raspberry PI, I should be able to handle a decent amount of concurrent traffic. I haven’t looked into ngrock tho.

Is that 3k per year or per month? 3k/mo is quite high for this, given that one can get a digitalocean/hetzner VM for much cheaper.

Yeah, 3K per month…. I was already paying about 2K for a non-gigabit plan, I got the business account and used it as a tax write off for my dad (as he already has a registered office in the same address) …. So it kinda made sense for me

@acceptable-flag-71699 ngrok restricts connections per minute. I came across this sometime back: https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/04/22/home-server-networking/

@careful-pencil-2826 This is useful. I already have a machine set up in Hetzner, so using SSH tunnel via that might be better. This link is helpful.