I got a pretty great one for cheap that I want to migrate my Navidrome service to. I don't mind the $12 renewal; I just need to figure out how to host 1TB of music on the cloud for cheap.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Define "cheap".

https://bdon.github.io/cng-storage-guide/

Note that this isn't a one-to-one guide.

Some have a minimum storage amount but with 12 TB you're fine.

I think cloudflare may be the most cost effective since they don't have egress costs like AWS.

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the guide. S3 buckets are the way to go and I already have a few Linode/Akami servers I keep for playing around with. I'm just a little worried about Navidrome hammering the server because I messed something up then getting a $1000 bandwidth charge.

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol I renew in 5 year increments

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[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am using my domain. Best 10€ ever spent (maybe after Terraria). For just 10€ I get a .org domain name and all the DNS records I want, and I get pampered by cloudflare all the time...

"Oh, you want a distributed reverse proxy? You want a dislocated cache? You won't TLS without getting a certificate? Block AI on the proxy? Even more stuff? Well guess what, we already make a bajillion dollars from big tech, so you the little guy can have all of that included in your 10€"

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yeah this is why I don’t get the selfhosting communities dislike of cloudflare. Most of the free stuff they give you, you can’t hope to self host. And the stuff you can, you are still free to. There’s the chance they turn on us in the future, but for now they seem pretty reliable.

Now if it’s a dislike of centralization to a single company? I can understand that.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

We dislike it because nobody needs it. Nobody here is getting DDoS'd to any extend that needs external protection.

I'm talking anecdotally but it seems to me that all the people who ride-or-die Cloudflare are also self-hosters who aren't very knowledgeable about self-hosting concepts and just heard that cloudflare protects against all these imaginary problems because they sure do sound scary!

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

The problem with cloudflare is when everyone relies on them, then if something happens to them, they take the whole internet offline... its much like when aws has issues, half the internet just stops working. It undermines the concept that the internet is a federation.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, I don't use most of their stuff because I mostly run self hosted stuff that either don't need their proxy stuff or violate their content policies (you can't serve movies/video over their proxy, which is reasonable). But if I wanted to I already have all of that at my disposal, without any extra money.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I can't be the only one that collects cheap domains for fun.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I will never let go of bascul.in, that's for sure.

[–] GuillaumeGus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

At least put all three basculin on it!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a domain I keep because it's short, but my main one is more memorable. I just don't want to lose the short one, I'm sure I'll find a use for it one day.

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

That might be good for shortlinking

[–] chazwhiz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

How very dare you.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I finally let mine go last week. RIP 🪦

[–] Link@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago

My condolences

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

reading these comments makes me quite please about my $6 renewal .stream domain lol

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Options have value.

Options expire.

🤷

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh sweet summer child. Back in the 1999 and 2000 Network Solutions was the only registrar (for North American TLDs) and it cost $35/year (and if memory serves you had to buy it initially for 2 years, and after that you could renew it for 1 year at a time). $35 in the year 2000 is worth $65.66 today.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yep. It wasn't cheap or easy back when they had the monopoly.

That's back when ISP's offered personal webpage hosting as part of your service. I setup my first webpage on my dialup ISP's server. Family photos and such before the social media things got going.

I for many years after that for large file transfers. Just set up a landing index page and a folder for the file in FTP to activate it. Then share the http address to file.

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