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

  • SleepyBear@lemmy.myspamtrap.com
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    1 year ago

    I run ddclient on a local machine and it updates my Cloudflare DNS records if my IP changes.

    OPNSense has it built in too, if you use it. So does PFSense, I think. Been a while, might be misremembering.

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    1 year ago

    If you only need public access to things like HTTP or SSH you don’t necessarily need to run dynamic ip and just setup Cloudflare Tunnels. So far I haven’t needed to put anything public that doesn’t run on the provided tunnels.

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    1 year ago

    your domain provider probably has an api to update dns records i use cloudflare with their api because then i can hide my ip behind their proxy or if i don’t have a public ip i can use their tunnels

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    1 year ago

    First step would be to ensure that you can do port forwarding.

    1. Check if your IP address isn’t a private one or CGNAT.
    2. Now set up reverse proxy and try connecting to your service. If it connects, you are okay.
    3. Now this is something i didn’t know could happen but it did end up happening to me. I was happily port forwarding for a few months, until suddenly my port forwarding stopped working. Now I called my ISP, they said they did nothing(my ISP is a few guys who have no Idea about what they are doing, the other option to them is 512kbps DSL connection) at this point all my ingress ports are blocked and even outgoing ssh is blocked. Then the new month starts and everything is working again. I looked at my ISP website to get an idea of what may have caused this and the case seems to be that it was the first time I crossed 100GB in uploading. So my ISP has configured things such a way that port forwarding only works for the first 100GB of uploading.

    This is why I strongly recommend cloudfare tunnel or any other similar solution.

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    1 year ago

    I use duckdns.org , but if you are trying to host a webpage I totally recommend using Cloudflare, Cloudflare tunnels and a reverse proxy like nginx.

    Setting it up may be a bit tricky, but it is a gamechanger. I followed Ibracorp’s guides and I had no problem.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve also been on freedns.afraid.org for many years. Back when I switched from dyndns, it wasn’t possible to get Let’s Encrypt certificates on afraid.org’s domains, but that might have changed. I worked around it by taking a domain I already owned and using a CNAME to point it at my afraid.org domain.

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      1 year ago

      This. But I use namecheap and the built in tool on pfsense to keep an A record up to date if it ever changed.

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        1 year ago

        I have NameCheap as well. I was trying to set this up with the ddclient on OPNSense but the logs suggested it couldn’t connect to NameCheap. What do you need to authenticate other than the DDNS passcode supplied by NameCheap?

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          1 year ago

          Oof. Set this up years ago now…

          Add the hostname IE public Add the domain name IE starkcommando.com

          This will be public.starkcommando.com

          Leave username blank (this was a gotchya for me, if I recall correctly)

          Then put the generated namecheap ddns password (not your account password) that matches the record in.

          All set.

      • kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com
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        1 year ago

        I should automate something like that too. I just have one A record pointing to my IP and all my subdomains CNAME’d to that so that if it ever changes, I just have to update that one record.

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    1 year ago

    I use DuckDNS. There’s been only one outage for the ~2 years I’ve been using it and it’s free. I also use DuckDNS to acquire the SSL certificates for the reverse proxy.

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      1 year ago

      I also use duckdns, but in the last year it went down like twice or something. Its good but not really reliable.

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      1 year ago

      I used duckdns for my jellyfin server, but after a week or so I started getting malicious site warnings from Firefox, and had to ‘accept the risk and continue’ every time. Ended up going back to noip. It’s a pain to renew every month, but I haven’t had any other problems with it.

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        1 year ago

        I use noip as well, but because I only have an IP camera on that network, and the camera has built-in DDNS support for noip. But I hate it having to renew monthly.

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    1 year ago

    DNS-O-Matic (recommended by CloudFlare, among others) combined with SWAG and Authelia will handle dynamic DNS, reverse proxying, SSL certificates, and MFA. SWAG (nginx, Let’s Encrypt and Certbot) and Authelia (MFA) run nicely in a 2 container Docker stack.

    Mine have been running for ~18 months on my NAS, though I have a fixed IP so no longer use a DDNS provider.

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    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