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Well, it's also about the simplicity of not having to maintain it, and uptime; by having ingresses in different VPS providers. VPS instances from a privacy friendly providers usually don't have great uptime.
With enough users we should be able to lower prices even more.
having ingresses in different VPS providers
could you elaborate please? you use more than one provider?
Say you want to publish yourwebsite.com from your house. You would point yourwebsite.com to ingress.blindport.com with a DNS CNAME or ALIAS record.
ingress.blindport.com points to provider A and provider B VPS IPs instead of just one.
From your house, the blindportd daemon opens tunnels to each of those servers. So if someone tries to access yourwebsite.com and provider A is down, your website still loads through the provider B.
The fair comparison would be getting *two* VPS instances from different providers and configuring WireGuard and DNS to have the fallback behavior. Which is what Blindport does, and you can self host. Another catch is that VPS with unmetered traffic are more expensive.
Who are the providers currently?
https://mynymbox.io/ and https://servers.guru/
Both on different ASNs. You can verify this with:
dig ingress.blindport.com +short:
78.17.212.128
89.125.35.70
https://ipinfo.io/78.17.212.128
https://ipinfo.io/89.125.35.70
We can easily add more or switch providers as needed.
Nice product for a specific use case. An anonymous VPS+WG is not much more expensive, but can do extra stuff, like routing to FIPS, be a TOR exit node or working as a VPN for family and friends.