In search for free domain I got IPQuick. It gives a random domain for any IP4&6. I know not reliable for commercial use but I just want a domain for nextcloud,fediverse and mail.

Questions 1.Is not IP keeps changing in short time will I need to Keep generating domains? 2.Any one using it?

  • Nyfure@kbin.social
    481·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Ambuj Yadav@programming.devOPEnglish
      182·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        161·
        10 months ago

        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 :)

        CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

        • Ambuj Yadav@programming.devOPEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Thnx, Btw I use a Cellular data (and sometimes wifi of neighbors.) How to know My IP remains same or keep changing?

          • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Not sure which ports are required for your usage but maybe cloudflared would work? It works on the free tier as well, you can install cloudflared on your linux/windows server (no BSD support afaik).

            Freenom’s domains are pretty unstable, they lost management for .ga domains last year and they often claim others’ free domain when they have high usage.

            though if you have unstable network I won’t suggest self hosting fediverse stuff.

          • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            Check https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see your IP address once you’re connected to either network, but with a high likelihood, it’s almost certainly different IPs. In that case, Dynamic DNS is probably best.

            But if you’re using your neighbor’s wifi, I doubt there’s a way for you to host stuff unless you have access to their routers, can open ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), and forward them to your server. It’s best to use hardware you control (including the router).

            CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

      • tapdattl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • rar@discuss.onlineEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • rodbiren@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Kuinox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    I recommend duckdns instead, which is more well known in the DIY community. It’s also a dyndns like other told you to use.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I don’t want to be rude but if you can’t afford a domain you probably shouldn’t be hosting a fediverse server.

        Honestly do you even need to expose services to the internet? Internet exposure is dangerous and is not necessary for 95% of things. You can use a mesh VPN like netbird or Tailscale if you need remote access.

        This isn’t me trying to offend you I just think it would be wise to reduce the scope of you projects.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago
    1. I would assume you’d need to keep updating the DNS record to match the IP you have.
    2. I’m not. Nothing like that is completely free. I wonder how they pay for the DNS…
    • tapdattl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        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.

  • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago
    1. Check out afraid.org and learn how to set up DDNS.
    2. I’ve been using afraid.org for a long time with no issues. I don’t know IPQuick.
    3. 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”.
    • Ambuj Yadav@programming.devOPEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      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 😅😆

      • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        10 months ago

        Not an expert, but AFAICT email self hosting is not considered a good idea, as the maintenance of an email server requires a lot of work. An alternative could be using Cloudflare for the DNS and set up email routing (for free).

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    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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  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Don’t do this, this is a seriously bad idea on multiple fronts. Buy a domain that’s reasonably priced and you will be much better off. (gen.xyz is cheap)

    What I have in my setup is a VPS that routes traffic into a separate network that has all my services in it. This way I don’t need to expose my home to the public Internet