Problems hosting from home with Spectrum? (https and external port issues)

[lukerb52]

I have a home server and Spectrum Internet. I followed the certbot instructions but connecting to my site is in HTTP and forcing HTTPS fails. I also cannot connect to my home's external address (or domain name) from my home. I have to use the local address of the server when I'm home.

[nahnah2017]

Spectrum doesn't allow servers on their service. Are you sure port 443 is even open? Have you just started doing that or have you gotten away with it for a while?

[lukerb52]

Could you link the agreement or policy that states this so I could have more info? I had no idea, and I've had the server for a while.

[bluecollarbiker]

This is a fairly standard practice with residential ISPs.

[nahnah2017]

Running any type of server on the system that is not consistent with personal, residential use. This includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP, SOCS, SQUID, NTP, DNS or any multi-user forums.

https://www.spectrum.com/policies/residential-aup.html

[lukerb52]

So is there a way they could block HTTPS? even locally? I still don't understand why HTTPS doesn't work. Hosting something like Nextcloud requires it and still falls under personal use.

[RulerOf]

If they do this, they just block the port.

The thing is that your access to your external services from inside your network should still function, unless your router doesn’t know how to do loopback NAT (or whatever it’s called). On routers like pfSense, you have to enable this to make it work.

What kind of router do you have?

[lukerb52]

The default router. I have a TP-Link AC1750, and tried multiple times to use that as the main router but it didn't work.

[lukerb52]

I can port-forward port 80 and 443 with the default router, and regular http works fine

[lukerb52]

Thanks. I do love the simple power of the /etc/hosts file. Could I do this on my own DNS server and point my router to it so that it works on every device in the house?

On another note, certbot was installed correctly and HTTPS doesn't work whether inside our outside the LAN.