Cloudflare are nice enough to provide a free tier to their CDN service which is perfect for those of us that still host websites at home. The free teir provides some basic benefits - DDOS protection and caching. Check out the details here - https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#overview
If you utilize their tunneling solution, you’ll also be able to host websites behind a dynamic IP. You’ll no longer need a static IP. This means the traffic goes like so;
Just wanted to note here that there is a tool for windows to ‘port forward’ Its a command MS ships that enables IPv6 to work on IPv4, but can be used as a port redirector…. so as long as you have IPv6 support on your box, you can do this.
syntax as follows;
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=443 connectaddress=targetmachine connectport=3389
so the machine above listens on 443 and redirects traffic to 3389 on targetmachine.
Things you’ll need; (basic instructions) SSH - either Linux or Open SSH for windows (set this up first and ensure its working!). I have only used Linux, so i do not know the details of setting up a Open SSH box on windows (good luck).
Router with pinhole or port forwarding abilities. – forward your external 443 port to internal 22 on your SSH box
Putty.exe - use this to test your SSH connection locally (you should be able to connect on port 22 locally or 443 externally)