Very cool! Running the not-well-maintained https://hndex.org search engine (and other memory hungry linear algebra based services) was also my original motivation for tunneling to my home as opposed to hosting on a VPS.
Are you hosted via a residential ISP? It's my hunch that peering agreements favor routes of consumer -> data center -> consumer as opposed to consumer -> consumer. That's mainly why I tunnel. Has that been your experience?
Yeah it's on residential broadband. Haven't really had much trouble to be honest. Though I'm based in Sweden and we have fairly well robust networking infrastructure all around, I guess that may be a factor.
I was hit by a botnet after my first big HN hug, so right now at least the search engine goes visitor->cloudflare->server, but if anything that's just added a bunch of ping.
I'm also doing crawling and so on on the same network and it's really not bad for that either. Granted my crawls are fairly slow and very far from saturating any connections.
Are you hosted via a residential ISP? It's my hunch that peering agreements favor routes of consumer -> data center -> consumer as opposed to consumer -> consumer. That's mainly why I tunnel. Has that been your experience?