[tssva]

I used ddclient with Cloudflare for years with no issues.

Recently upgraded my home router and the manufacturer operates a free dynamic dns service enabled with a toggle button. I have a cname record in my domain’s dns records pointing to the dynamic dns entry. I actually don’t even need that anymore. All the services I run at home are only for immediate family so only available remotely via a Wireguard vpn connection. I migrated that to the router also because it can do 900Mbs of Wireguard traffic and has a great vpn server management implementation. By default the client configs it generates points to the dynamic dns name. No real need for the cname but I have it out of habit.

[kukkamario]

Mikrotik at least has that DDNS functionality. It is really nice feature.

[tssva]

I didn’t need all the features or complexity of a Mikrotik router so I went simpler. I have a GL.iNet MT-6000. Underneath it runs openwrt and you can access the openwrt luci web interface or ssh to it if you want to do anything more complex than their web ui allows. So far besides enabling sftp so certbot can deploy a ssl cert to replace the default self-signed cert I haven’t needed to.

It also runs AdGuard Home so that is another thing I have been able to remove from my home server.

[IgorPartola]

So does OPNsense. It’s such a joy to use that whole OS.

[sagz]

Wow! May I know the router model that does 900+mbps of Wireguard? The dedicated GLinet box I got for tailscale does only about 60-90mbps. Apple TV 4K does a paltry 20-40...

[tracker1]

Is that being limited from your connection's uplink speed? My uplink is only 100mbit (I can sometimes get as much as 120mbps though). When I connect remotely through wireguard, I have to issue reaching that. I can set to my home connection at whatever the location I'm at has allowed.

I've got my additional services on a Ryzen R9 5900HX mini pc. My router is an N300 mini-pc with 4 network ports. I had trouble configuring wireguard on the router, so it's in a VM on the mini-pc and runs as well as can be expected.

[tssva]

The GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2. I have a site to site Wireguard VPN with my brother which I use for offsite backups. It saturates my 500Mbs internet connection when performing backups. I have seen YouTube videos of others successfully testing the 900Mbs throughput claim. I stopped using tailscale myself about a year ago so can’t comment on the performance with it. It uses a user space Wireguard implementation instead of the kernel one so that may impact performance.