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.
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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 :)
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Can you make the domain somehow personalized to you so you can say its for an online resume to further your education and employability? If you happen to host other personal stuff that won't cost you anything extra, just make sure you have a fancy looking CV at the root.
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?
NameCheap
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.
While I normally agree on #2, it doesnt really apply to Tailscale. Tailscale isn't completely free, they have a free tier to generate business but it's limited to 3 users per tailnet. Also its cryptographically impossible for them to snoop on your traffic.
I was referring to OP's use of IPQuick. This isn't a service I'm familiar with and it doesn't seem to be affiliated with any organization that I'm familiar with either.
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 😅😆
It's a few euro per year, plus you can mutualize the cost with your family, take a domain name with your last name, this will allow your whole family to have firstname@lastname.yourcountrytld.
I just looked for my lastname, it's around $10 per year.
I'll repeat this again, but it means you will own this domain name, you have legal ressources and big companies won't be able to take your mail address from you.
Else, use duckdns if you really don't want to pay anything.
Will surely get one ambuj@yadav.in next year but not now man.
Thanks for your time.
You just made a mistake into saying what domain name you will take, someone may buy it before you in order to extort money from you.
It probably won't happen but...
That domain currently hosts a "this domain may be for sale" page, but it's been registered since 2005 so it's definitely not because of this post.
😅😆
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- 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...
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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) |
10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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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.
- 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 😅😆
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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
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.
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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.
Ohk, will try it.
Not updated from 2020 do it work properly also no webapp.
What do you mean?
It do not have any webapp Like nextcloud bookarks or wallabag.
I2P isn't a service if you mean that. It is a whole new network just like the regular clearnet or the tor network.
Hmm, Actually I was replying to another comment. Apology.
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