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 ===Before the Setup: the Intro===
-Before getting into the setup, you first have to check your internet connection at home or where you want to set up the server for your website. Generally, to set up a self-hosting website and make your server accessible to traffic on the internet, you need to have a static IP address. This address is then used when someone wants to visit your website. Most, if not all, internet service providers, though, do not give their customers static IP addresses; the static ones are usually reserved for “enterprise,” and it is not possible to get with typical customer internet plans. But no worries, there are still some ways to overcome this issue. You can use VPS, a virtual private server that your home server connects to with its dynamic IP address, and you can direct visitor traffic to your website via this “gateway,” which is one way to solve the problem. Another solution is to use a tool that updates your DNS records every time your dynamic IP address changes. The former is a more straightforward solution, not requiring a second external server.
+Before getting into the setup, you first have to check your internet connection at home or where you want to set up the server for your website. Generally, to set up a self-hosting website and make your server accessible to traffic on the internet, you need to have a static IP address. This address is then used when someone wants to visit your website. Most, if not all, internet service providers, though, do not give their customers static IP addresses; the static ones are usually reserved for “enterprise,” and it is not possible to get with typical customer internet plans. But no worries, there are still some ways to overcome this issue. You can use VPS, a virtual private server that your home server connects to with its dynamic IP address, and you can direct visitor traffic to your website via this “gateway,” which is one way to solve the problem. Another solution is to use a tool that updates your DNS records every time your dynamic IP address changes. The latter is a more straightforward solution, not requiring a second external server.
 The second issue you must pay attention to before setting up everything is to understand if your ISP is using a system called double-NAT or CG-NAT. If that is the case, your public IP, visible to the outside traffic, differs from the one you see in your modem’s admin panel. If these IP addresses differ, your ISP uses a double NAT, which is an issue when you want your home server accessible to outside traffic. To understand if you are behind a double NAT, visit a website showing your IP address, like Whatismyip. Take note of that IP address. Then, log in to your modem’s admin panel (usually done by typing 192.168.X.X—you can find the correct address by googling your modem’s brand and model) and look for the IPv4 address shown there. If the two IP addresses, the one shown by “whatismyip-type-of-website” and the one you see on your modem’s admin panel, are different, this means your ISP is using a double-NAT type of thing.