this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
40 points (97.6% liked)

Selfhosted

39158 readers
390 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

There are many DNS names options. Which one do you use?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just bought an actual domain and use that πŸ˜…

As an added bonus, letsencrypt works with no effort.

[–] karlthemailman 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here. Well worth it for $10 a year

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

I bought domain from joker.com, 10 years for $33

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? How they sell for so long?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know but they do. I picked the cheapest name I could find and went with it.

Checked and they still do sell domains for 10y but price has gone up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

same. saved my ass already a few times when doing some reverseengineering voodoo. being able to set a valid https cert makes it easier to redirect apps than to bypass forced HTTPS. had to pretend to be a update server for something once and patching the URL was enough via getting a cert quickly (using DNS-01 challenge, no exposed ports ever)