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by ohiovr 1684 days ago
This might not be what you are looking for but might solve your problem: https://www.dynu.com/

Dynu has free services for cheap subdomains but they also have a fairly decent registry too. I was even able to set up a mail domain (of course useless because of IP blacklists). I used a reverse proxy to provide SSL to my hosted domains. I set it all up with Docker and bash.

I had quite a few fun little services running at home on my pc. Never seemed to find a use for it though.

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This looks awesome!

So, rather than proxying requests from some server, I can use their dynamic ip product to just auto-update the DNS entry for my home computers whenever my ISP changes my DNS.

I imagine there will be some small downtime every time my ISP switches (cached DNS / TTL etc...), but it should happen rarely ().

I'll also search for "dynamic DNS" and see if anything else comes up, but this looks like a really good solution, thanks for posting it.

Your welcome! BTW I found my ip address changed very rarely. dynu gives you a linux daemon that will allow you to notify your services. I might get one ip change every 4 months unless I'm changing my mac address on the router.