Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by ashitlerferad » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by chrisco255 » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 5:38 PM UTC

I haven't self-hosted a website in a long time. Do you still need a static IP in order to do so, or do you have some kind of service that updates the IP? How does it interact with DNS?

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by creatornator » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 5:41 PM UTC

chrisco255 wrote: post #2

I haven't self-hosted a website in a long time. Do you still need a static IP in order to do so, or do you have some kind of service that updates the IP? How does it interact with DNS?

There are "Dynamic DNS" services with a small daemon you install on your server that continuously update the DNS address so it remains online even if your ISP changes your IP on you.

https://account.dyn.com/

https://www.noip.com/remote-access

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by kissgyorgy » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

chrisco255 wrote: post #2

I haven't self-hosted a website in a long time. Do you still need a static IP in order to do so, or do you have some kind of service that updates the IP? How does it interact with DNS?

I use Cloudflare for my domains, it has a REST API, I wrote a small Python script which updates the A record for all my domains. My IP addresses change at least monthly, but I never noticed any outage.

https://github.com/kissgyorgy/cloudflare-dyndns

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by galacticdessert » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

Well, I have a small living room server/home lab as well, but it's a 12 years old MacBook pro running Debian. I love the idea of having my own server where to run small personal projects, have some daemons running in the background and use it as a NAS, but I cannot justify any investment for it. Scrape parts or nothing.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by w84death » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

I have that for a long time :) mine: http://194.126.207.20/

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

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Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by quaintdev » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

I have simple note server[1] running on raspberry pi. I want it to be accessible from Internet but my ISP uses double NAT and theirs no other way around it. :/

[1] : https://github.com/quaintdev/pinotes

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

w84death wrote: post #6

I have that for a long time :) mine: http://194.126.207.20/

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Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by seb314 » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

creatornator wrote: post #3

chrisco255 wrote: post #2

I haven't self-hosted a website in a long time. Do you still need a static IP in order to do so, or do you have some kind of service that updates the IP? How does it interact with DNS?

There are "Dynamic DNS" services with a small daemon you install on your server that continuously update the DNS address so it remains online even if your ISP changes your IP on you. https://account.dyn.com/ https://www.noip.com/remote-access

btw this can be done with a 'proper' domain name too (e.g. at namecheap)