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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by starkcommando to c/selfhosted
 

I would like to host my own web server with a domain name I purchased but my public IP isn't static.

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

I pay an extra £1 a month to my ISP to get a static address. Figured it's well worth having no hassle.

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

I just have a cron script running on a machine that does something like this every 10 seconds

C_IP=`dig +short my.domain`
IP=`curl https://api.ipify.org`
if(C_IP != IP) {
    updateRoute53(IP)
}

This is just for my main home server. Gets the job done because if it's out of date for a few seconds nothing matters.

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

Before, I used to use duckdns. Completely free and super simple
Nowadays I just have a docker container that updates my A records on my domain directly through namesilo's API. Took like 5 mins to set up the config

[–] yaaaaayPancakes 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still using noip.com. There may be better/cheaper options these days, but this has worked well for me for years, and I don't see the need to change.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~AdGuard! They even have installable profiles for Apple devices, so I get ad blocking even on mobile!~~

mb, DDNS. nvm

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

OP is asking about DDNS instead of DNS. They want a fixed address to their ever changing IP address.

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