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I kind of want to set up my own domain for personal stuff and learning purposes. I was thinking of using it for a vpn for ssh-ing into my local devices and for hosting git repos and stuff. Maybe a phorge instance or something. It wouldn’t really be for public use so I don’t think I need to worry about high traffic.

I know when hexbear switched domain name services during the recent debacle that people seemed to really like the new one but I forget what it was called. As for server hosting, I guess aws is the obvious choice, but that and azure are the only choices I’m even aware of, so I don’t know if there’s something else out there that’d be better suited to my needs. Actually, do I even need server hosting at all? My friend mentioned that I could configure my router to forward requests on a certain port to one of my devices, so could I set up my own server that way? Wouldn’t that cause issues if the router restarts and I get a new ip address?

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[–] xj9@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I use porkbun for domain registration.

There are a bunch of budget cloud hosts: buyvm, vultr, linode, scaleway. You can also do port forwarding with cloudflare (but I'm not sure how it keeps track of your home IP).

I have a custom forwarding setup based on yggdrasil where my LAN machines connect to the forwarding host and each other, then the external traffic is routed over the VPN connection in the other direction. Its pretty nice, but I haven't taken the time to document it very well.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago

I haven't taken the time to document it very well

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