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Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by BingBong@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello all, I'm looking for a second set of eyes before I potentially screw up all my self hosted services. I'll be the first to admit I'm not an IT expert and am getting a wee bit lost in all of the reading I've been doing so please go easy on me.

I'm currently working to get my domain (already registered) to be used for internal addresses as well as get a working SSL certificate. I am following wolfgangs instructions with the exception that I already have my domain registered with BlueHost. BlueHost does not appear to be directly supported by nginx and wants to charge me $90/year for an SSL certificate which is far more than I'm willing to pay for my little self-hosting hobby.

Fundamentally I believe I need to point my domain to new nameservers which provide support for 'Let's Encrypt'. If there were a vendor that offered that as a service I think I could leave the domain with bluehost and simply point the nameservers elsewhere. I "think" cloudflare offers this but its the only one and I've heard mixed things about using it from the standpoint of privacy. Does anyone have suggestions?

The other option I see, which seems more broadly supported, is to transfer my domain from bluehost to another vendor. Does anyone have suggestions? I've struggled to see the renewal costs when looking at these transfers.

Before fully borking my setup, would appreciate some input on if I'm on the right track or not. Thank you!

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[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Appreciate everyone's help. What I ended up doing was moving to porkbun as I (a) saved money with some of the whois privacy items, (b) got free SSL certificates, and (c) it worked with the automated certbot tie in with Nginx-Prox-Manager. I did confirm I could manually load certs into Nginx but have very limited time at the moment and this seemed like a straightforward path.

Certainly the proposals for self-hosted DNS servers are interesting and something I may experiment with in the future but times limited at the moment. Now I'm just working out why Jellyfin and Photoprism work perfectly but homebox doesn't want to work with the domain name. Another round of learning begins!