hi everyone,

I was just about to self-host a Ghost blog but then was warned that my ISP might change my external IP address at any time, so I would need to pay for a static IP address.

Is that true?

(I’d not seen much about that in stuff I’ve looked up so far about self hosting)

  • Paddy66@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    1·
    23 hours ago

    Hi, I’m using Docker - one container for Ghost and one for Nginx Proxy Manager.

    I’ve decided to go with DDNS but am having trouble choosing a reliable free provider. I’ve seen Dynu.com recommended but that is not available in the dropdown list of servers in my router’s section on DDNS. Is that relevant?

    Or would I just ignore the router settings and set it up some other way?

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Cloudflare is a good choice. I used DNSExit for a while, and also NS1, but settled on Cloudflare. You don’t have to use their proxying, just DNS.

      Here’s a Docker Compose for you that will set myhost.mydomain.com to point to your public IP of wherever it is run:

      dyndns-cloudflare:
    image: oznu/cloudflare-ddns
    container_name: dyndns-cloudflare
    environment:
      - API_KEY=<key>
      - ZONE=mydomain.com
      - SUBDOMAIN=myhost
      - PROXIED=false
    restart: unless-stopped
    • RecitalMatchbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      I’m having a good experience with cloudflare, using ddclient on a cron job

      To clarify: it doesn’t matter much what your router supports if you have a server with ddclient (possibly in Docker container). Then you can choose whatever provider you’d like, and there are tons of resources on ddclient.