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Last time I tried something like this my ISP cut me off by sending me an email after they cut me off about how if I am running a business website it has to be through their business plan not residential plan.
I never saw the email because they cut me off before I could ever view it.
I wasn't even hosting a business site but it was for a wedding announcement and RSVP shit.
Little guys have a hard time these days.
What if you hid your traffic by using a wireguard VPN like mullvad as your exit node? Your ISP wouldn’t be privy to the services you host all they could see is that your using wireguard or a vpn
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Was this a well known ISP or a local ISP That's weird. Did they have a policy against that? Even when I didn't have a business account with my ISP, they didn't seem to care,
It was Comcast. Luckily I don't have them anymore. Thank God for municipal fiber.
That's brutal — and unfortunately very common. ISPs love the "you're violating ToS" card, especially when they have a more expensive business plan to sell you. The irony is that most residential ToS are deliberately vague about what constitutes "running a business" — a wedding RSVP site is hardly a commercial operation, but it doesn't matter when the ISP is the judge, jury and executioner. We've been lucky with Eolo so far — they haven't flagged anything. Part of the reason is probably that our traffic profile looks residential (low inbound, spikes rather than constant load) and we're not running anything that would show up as "suspicious" on their side. The asymmetry you're describing is real though. A large company can host whatever they want on enterprise infrastructure. A small developer hosting a wedding site gets cut off without warning. Self-hosting is getting harder at the residential level precisely because ISPs have a financial incentive to make it harder. Hope you found a better solution eventually.