Why not just pay $2/yr for a domain on Name Cheap? They have a dynamic DNS solution.
Because I am school student (16yr) from INDIA. Here u have to give record of each penny to parents and If say them that I just want a domain for self hosting my personal stuff I will not be able to say something else.
I was where you are too and 2$/month or even per year seemed crazy to me if I could get it for free
If you’re at home and want to point to your home IP, but it constantly changes, the easiest is Dynamic DNS.
You can find more.
If you have a stable IP, there also free top level domains .TK / .ML / .GA / .CF / .GQ over at https://www.freenom.com/ . Their frontend is down sometimes, but once you have a domain and are point it to an IP, you should be dandy.
Good luck :)
Thnx, Btw I use a Cellular data (and sometimes wifi of neighbors.) How to know My IP remains same or keep changing?
Check https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see your IP address once you’re connected to either network, but with a high likelihood, it’s almost certainly different IPs. In that case, Dynamic DNS is probably best.
But if you’re using your neighbor’s wifi, I doubt there’s a way for you to host stuff unless you have access to their routers, can open ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), and forward them to your server. It’s best to use hardware you control (including the router).
Not sure which ports are required for your usage but maybe cloudflared would work? It works on the free tier as well, you can install cloudflared on your linux/windows server (no BSD support afaik).
Freenom’s domains are pretty unstable, they lost management for .ga domains last year and they often claim others’ free domain when they have high usage.
though if you have unstable network I won’t suggest self hosting fediverse stuff.
I like duckdns for DDNS
It’s completely.
Be careful OP that after first year you have to pay the ‘renew’ price, which is generally higher than ‘register’ price. A lot of cheap domain offers use that trick expecting users to become attached to their domains.
My domain has been consistently $2 for four years now.
Info please? All I’ve seen were offers around ~10 usd minimum for renewal.
I don’t do anything special, I just have a really stupid domain name that no one else would want. I don’t use autopay so maybe that helps.
Which provider are you using to have the domain so cheap?
Had really good experience with this option. Namecheap seems quite reasonable. Also, self hosting on other’s domain can cause a lot of issues as you try creating enough paths for everything. I have found subdomain routing to work much better as a lot of applications get sad when their host url is something like blarg.com/gitea or something.
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Assuming that you mean that you are using the domain name to point to services which are at a residential, dynamic IP address, you will need to set up a Dynamic DNS service.
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If a product is free, you’re the product.
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- Check out afraid.org and learn how to set up DDNS.
- I’ve been using afraid.org for a long time with no issues. I don’t know IPQuick.
- Real domains can be REALLY cheap if you don’t need something fancy. Just go to https://tld-list.com/ and sort for “cheapest renewal”.
You can also get a free domain at eu.org
Okay that’s interesting.
True, I forgot about that.
afraid.org +1
Will I be able to host Email (I have server).
Btw I a 11th class student from Middle Class Indian family.So cheap should be equal to free 😅😆
Not an expert, but AFAICT email self hosting is not considered a good idea, as the maintenance of an email server requires a lot of work. An alternative could be using Cloudflare for the DNS and set up email routing (for free).
Okay not hosting mail bt I wanna host friendica.
I recommend duckdns instead, which is more well known in the DIY community. It’s also a dyndns like other told you to use.
Will DDNS will be sufficient to host a fediverse server (I mean will other sites federate with it)
I don’t know, maybe ?
But I recommand strongly to have your own domain name.
As long as you do nothing illegal, when you own a domain name, you have legal recourse to keep it. It’s not the case for an email service mail like gmail, which can ban you for no reason tomorrow, and you have no recourse to get back your email address back.But I cant pay the cost these days. I breed on parent’s money 😅😆
I don’t want to be rude but if you can’t afford a domain you probably shouldn’t be hosting a fediverse server.
Honestly do you even need to expose services to the internet? Internet exposure is dangerous and is not necessary for 95% of things. You can use a mesh VPN like netbird or Tailscale if you need remote access.
This isn’t me trying to offend you I just think it would be wise to reduce the scope of you projects.
Hmm. Got it man,Thanks!!
https://freedomain.directory You can use some free subdomain services I think. Also I can feel you bud because I am also a student(11th)
Just pay the few dollars per year and have a stable and reputable domain.
Certainly for fediverse i’d want a stable domain, these are usually hard to migrate.For most use cases you can host everything on I2P.
- You can create unlimited domains for free
- Its censorship resistant There are some caveats though:
- The network is rather slow (but not too slow in my opinion)
- You need to configure your router or you device to access the I2P net
Like I want domain to host fediverse server?
This one will be a bit trickier because of federation. Maybe it is even impossible. But for git hosting, website hosting, email, your cloud, various chats software or torrents it should just work.
Email will work?
Most ppl use clearnet !!
Your smtp will still be able to connect to other services afaik. Its just about the hosted website.
The performance is absolutely abysmal and the error-rates high. For personal use, just have a normal VPN.
I just meant it as a static domain to host stuff. If you don’t care about anonymity you can just reduce the hops and it will get fairly stable.
I think you can get a free subdomain and dynamic DNS service at https://desec.io, with this you should be able to keep the domain updated with your IP and point it at your home server. But you need to have a public IP from your ISP and not to be behind NAT.
Anither option is to use a Tailscale Funnel. You will have to use a .ts.net subdomain with them and they terminate TLS and re-encrypt for you. On the other hand it’s completely free, you get NAT traversal, an encrypted tunnel, and you don’t have to maintain the IP even if it’s dynamic.
- I would assume you’d need to keep updating the DNS record to match the IP you have.
- I’m not. Nothing like that is completely free. I wonder how they pay for the DNS…
Did not got what ur saying in 1
In a normal domain/DNS scenario, you need to make sure your domain points to the correct IP. Most registrars have websites where you can manage which domain points to which domain in the DNS records.
What is difference in domain name and DDND
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CF CloudFlare DNS Domain Name Service/System Git Popular version control system, primarily for code HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL IP Internet Protocol NAT Network Address Translation SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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