my dream of hosting a few services mostly for personal use is alive and kicking tyvm
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Just renewed and I'm upset as well
Just set up auto renew and be sad when you are charged, then forget about it in a few days.
Ooo this hurts deep. I was paying hosting and domain, but now just domain since the site needed a refresh and one day I will get around to it…
Mate, I went full slog and got a vps. Now each site is a virtual host. I did have individual landers in each host, but now they just redirect to my main site.
Which is a lander 🤣
My domain is just used so I can reverse-proxy my homelab for people who don't know anything about vpn, etc.
Yeah, I use it for personal link sharing for Immich. Sharing photos is a breeze.
I got a domain that I only use for email right now but I'd love to set something like this up. Any recommendations on tutorials?
Get started with a Linux server and then I'd go with something like Nextcloud in a Docker container. Then do reverse proxy, nginx on the host is very easy. You can get and update SSL certs with certbot (Let's Encrypt).
Just do Caddy instead of nginx/cerbot all that garbage. Caddy just simply handles it all for you: Subdomains, wildcard certs, authentication, ssl
My whole caddy config file is like 6 lines; something like
@mydomain.com {
ipaddress:port
path:/
}
And you can do all sorts of plugins that make it compatible with fail2ban, etc.
I hear Traefik is pretty easy to set up too.
I used to have like 30 domains. Then last week I bought another one so now I have like 31 domains.
I bought it for a good reason though.
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Gym memberships: "Hold my beer."
My dream of pressing a red button with pay $12 on it will never be fulfilled 😥
Wow this was me yesterday. Opened Namecheap and saw the 10 domains I have sitting there doing nothing.
$12 is 2018 prices
I just renewed my .com for USD $11.08 and that's not even the cheapest registrar. Some companies will absolutely rip you off on renewals though.
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I have one that I use for services that other people need to get to. Otherwise I just remember the IP.
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question, i bought domains a few times, and the first year is super cheap, then the second year they jack up the prices. no, I'm not paying 140$ for a domain I only use for my kids Minecraft server.
that's why you always look at renewal prices and never first year prices. tld-list.com has a good comparison.
A lot of the big ones like to jack the prices up every year. Just dropped Namecheap because my domain tripled in price over 3 years
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Make sure you're buying .com or another common standard TLD and not some weird TLD with super high prices.
And check the renewal price, if your registrar doesn't make it very clear then go somewhere else.
Thats why I bought a dirt cheap domain that is entirely numbers, and it renews for 10 dollars every 10 years.
I just need to remember the digits.
.xyz
Heh. I own https://9007199254740991.com/
It’s the max safe integer in double precision floating point format.
Wait you're the port87 guy
Yeah. :)
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So... you reinvented ip addresses.
With subdomains and ddos protection
Those are class 1.111B domains. I actually buy them a little cheaper, but have to do it one year at a time. It's only 6-9 digits though, not any string of digits
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Guys one day, my nixos config WILL hold both my pc and home server configuration, just gotta block out 3 months to get it bootable
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