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What can you do with your own domain name in regards to self hosting? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One perk that someone told me about is that you can use your domain to get around not having a static IP (because the DNS will compensate).

If I were to get a Cloudflare domain name then what would be some other pros and cons?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You'd need to implement Dynamic DNS to update the records. DNS alone won't do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Correct. I used NOIP for years until I realized that 1) my IP address is static and 2) my home IP address was being exposed. (Pretty obvious I know but sometimes I am slow on the uptake 😃)

My solution was to get a $5 per month vps and reverse proxy and reverse ssh tunnels.

The $5 / month VPS ($60/year) was pretty much the cost of NOIP per year to use custom domains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Might as well use a Cloudflare tunnel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, Cloudflare tunnel takes care of the dynamic DNS. It has limitations, which is why I switched to Caddy and Nginx, but Cloudflare is relatively easy to set up for n00bs and I highly recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Adds latency and now Cloudflare sees all your traffic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are docker containers that auto update cloudflare a records for dynamic IP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Is there a guide I can follow? Currently I'm using dynv6 and have a bash script that updates my ipv6 every 10 mins or so.