I’m using DuckDNS currently, but am hoping to up my game with Caddy etc and want my own domain with more than the 5 subdomains. Any recommendations for providers?
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Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol NAS Network-Attached Storage VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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I’ve been hating bots on Lemmy, but I feel like this one is actually useful.
I was with Google Domains but switched to Namecheap. They are easy enough to work with and not the most expensive.
Porkbun for registrar and desec.io for DNS
Use ddclient for dynamic DNS updating
I prefer porkbun for my domain provider. They’re kind of the darling of the self-hosting community, it seems. But I picked them because they were pretty inexpensive.
Cloudflare for both honestly.
I just set up a wildcard subdomain record and with a few lines in docker-compose Traefik sets up a new subdomain in seconds, certs and all.
They charge the minimum renew amount for domains, plus you can use several different tools like cf-ddns, cfddns, or cloudflare-ddns
Cloudflare if you want one of the handful of TLDs they support, namecheap otherwise. For namecheap I still point the nameservers at Cloudflare so they can manage the site. For DDNS I use DDclient, it works, that’s about all I can or should say about a DDNS client.
Thanks for posting this. It’s nice that people are working on more accessible ways to do this, every way I’ve done it so far has been pure command line. And while that’s fine, it takes longer to understand and set up for simple installs.
Dynadot offers free .link domains.
Buy the domain itself wherever you want. I like cloudflare, and a lot of people also suggest porkbun.com. You then point the nameservers for your domain to whatever DNS service you want. If you stick to cloudflare then it’s already done for you.
For dynamic DNS I use cloudflare’s one using my router to keep it updated. It’s easy to set up. Depending on your router you may need to run a service on a machine to do this instead. things like pfsense/opnsense should have it built-in.
+1 for CloudFlare, also gives you the ability to setup basic restrictions based on source IP/ASN/etc.
Another +1 for Cloudflare. They’re selling the domain at their wholesale rate, which is generally cheaper than everywhere else. There’s also many DDNS clients as well as an API to allow you to roll your own (which is what I did).
I used Google Domains for many years.
I think mostly because it came as a package with my Google Workspace account.
But the whole "selling their domain accounts to Squarespace and not even bothering to notify us kind of turned me off to them.
I am now happily using Cloudflare instead.
Frankly I don’t miss it.
The rates seem a tiny bit cheaper and the API/etc is far more advanced.I suspect I will be much happier with Cloudflare in the long run
Just go Cloudflare. The dot.win told they have is incredible value ~3$ per annum if i remember correctly.
Other pros of using Cloudflare:
- Cloudflare ddns
- Cloudflare tunnels
- Cloudflare proxy
It does a a few cons, like not being able to use custom nameservers if you aren’t paying 200$ a month. Also the fact of Cloudflare being an internet gatekeeper may not be to your liking.
