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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 (13 children)
  • good-looking domains instead of IPs
  • tons of subdomains instead of ports
  • universally recognized TLS certs via Let's Encrypt. DNS challenges are the way to go - you don't even have to expose your HTTP server
  • dynamic DNS, again available via API
  • [email protected] (better not to self-host, but to use an email provider)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Wanted to expand on your custom domain for an email since this is something I do to get a more professional email address to put on my resume. A lot of DNS services like Cloudflare or NameCheap will actually let you create email addresses off of your custom domain that will just forward to a different email of your choosing, and generally free or very very cheap as well. If you want to be able to actually send emails from your custom domain, you can setup a Google Workspace account with a single seat for $5 a month and have a fully hosted email solution that uses your custom domain name.

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

better to use zoho. Zoho mails provides you 5 free custom email for free and zeptomail allows you to send k emails for 1 dollars

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

When I used Zoho Free, many of my emails would end up in people's spam folders. My domain is certainly not on any blacklist, it was pointed correctly and with the security and domain validation features enabled and everything configured properly. Deployed it to small business clients as well and same result.

Gmail doesn't seem to like Zoho.

What seemed to work like a charm was to use iCloud+ Custom Email and just add my custom domain addresses as aliases on Gmail. It's like having a custom domain Google Workspace without paying anything (apart from the iCloud subscription that gives you a ton of space for all your data).

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