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Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by ryanisnan »

kissgyorgy wrote: post #4
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

Ah, but have your users?

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by ih8spam »

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Please don't dignify this post with responses. This guy is spamming his site all over Reddit and other forums.

This sort of behaviour should be downvoted and discouraged, no matter if the content is relevant.

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Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by null0pointer »

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?

Something I want to experiment with is IPv6 DNS. IPv6 has enough address space that individual devices are universally uniquely addressable. With an AAAA record you can point DNS at an IPv6 address. So I want to try setting DNS to point to a specific device... though I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by charlieegan3 »

ryanisnan wrote: post #21
kissgyorgy wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ah, but have your users?

I use dynamic dns, a short ttl and have an external check on some services - they ping once a minute and never report downtime.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by pnutjam »

galacticdessert wrote: post #5

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.

I run everything on an old Dell desktop with a i7-2600 CPU and 8GB of RAM. I just run OpenSUSE and use it as a NAS(samba), remote desktop (x2go), pihole server, torrent host, etc..

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by themodelplumber »

floren wrote: post #26

A photo followed by a dozen Amazon referral links kind of rubs me the wrong way, even if I appreciate a nicely put-together setup like that.

Not sure if I agree. It doesn't cost you any extra to use those links when you're shopping for gear (last I checked), it's a creative and unusual setup to see in someone's house these days, the photo delivers a good amount of impression, and the resulting website is just nice to look at. On top of that, he did go to the trouble to list all of the gear, which there's a good chance won't even be remotely paid for by the affiliation.

Yeah, the more I think about this, to me I think this counts as supporting the community.

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