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0 pointssystemvoltage4y ago0 comments

I do have a firewall at home and I can open up a port and forward that to the laptop. Just that I don't want to spend money on DynDNS services and was trying to find a free solution. Thanks for confirming!

Self-hosting is so so cool. Nothing more satisfying that hosting your own website from scrappy ol equipment :-)

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andreasha4y ago· 1 in thread

There are free DynDNS services for example DuckDNS https://www.duckdns.org/

Could also get a domain name and make a simple cron job and update your DNS. Works with many DNS registrars like Cloudflare.

crtasm4y ago

Another example: https://freedns.afraid.org/

They generate you a line to drop in cron for automatic updates.

arnado4y ago

I used namecheap to register my domain, and they have an option for dynamic DNS without ongoing fees (besides domain fees, I guess). I would be surprised if other registrars didn't have something similar.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

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