[tyingq]

The "Host:" header in http[s] pretty much killed that. Half the internet would be a Cloudflare error page if we moved back to ip addresses :)

[BenjiWiebe]

Add the name/IP to your local hosts file. It all works great then. Until the server changes IPs, anyways.

I did this with a website I liked which had let the domain expire. It worked for quite some time, until the VPS/whatever expired too. Good thing the Internet Archive is a thing.