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What web services do you subscribe to? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I'll list a few:

ChatGPT
Perplexity
Obsidian Sync
YouTube Premium

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any decent options for routing a DNS name to a local machine behind NAT? I usually do this with a VPS, but I really don't like the terms at a lot of VPS services (forced arbitration everywhere).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I paid namecheap for a domain, it was $50 for 8 years. So I guess I lied, I did pay for that ages ago. Then, I use my UniFi Dream Machine firewall to route traffic to my Plex and game servers within my network. It’s great because I have Minecraft.mydomain.com, files.mydomain.com and palworld.mydomain.com that people use to access things. Do note that this requires a static IP from your ISP unless you want to get a dynamic dns service running which isn’t too bad.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't have access to dynamic DNS because I'm behind a NAT (ISP gives me a 10.x.x.x address). I can pay for a static IP, but I'd really rather not.

I was hoping there was something like Tailscale where I could forward ports over a VPN and use the VPN host's IP for my DNS. I can kinda get there with Tailscale's public DNS, but I can't use my own (well, I could use a CNAME, but I'd use their certs).

Anyway, it's a temporary thing since I should be getting a new municipal fiber connection soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

CGNAT should be illegal.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I can set up a VPN pretty easily, it's just annoying that I need to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Namecheap supports ddns out of the box too, no additional service required. You just need a cron job that calls their API to update your IP periodically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah perfect! Thanks for the additional info