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by uuddlrlrbaba 760 days ago
Self hosting in the cloud can be a bit counterproductive price wise.

You can run docker on a $100 USFF i7 pc and stuff 32G-64G and a big SSD in for cheap. That'll run for years and you could add a second host for redundancy. Depends on your maintenance and failure tolerance.

Or you probably already have some spare hardware, maybe an old laptop kicking around.

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Static ip is the problem where I live.
You don't have to worry about that anymore if you don't want to. Cloudflare has a Tunnel service where your service connects to CF.
You can use a free DDNS like DuckDNS.

https://www.duckdns.org/

Cool! Didn't know there's a free service. Gonna give it a try this weekend!
If you pair that with nginx reverse proxy you can set all of your homelab stuff up with a dns name and ssl certificate and get rid of those annoying security messages.

Pair that with a URL shortener like Yourls and you can have easy, convenient short names to access your self hosted systems.