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9 months agoIve been using no-ip.com DDNS for over a decade with my domains. The DDNS client is in my OpenWRT router. It configures ‘myhost.no-ip.com’. In the DNS config for my domain, I just setup CNAME entries for the hostnames I want on my domain, and point them all at myhost.no-ip.com. It works perfect. I pay $25/year for no-ip.com.
I was born this way. I ran a BBS as a kid in the 80s, way before the internet. (TBBS on a TRS-80). In mid 2000s, I setup a phpBB on some webhost for my hotrod/drag racing friends. I think I finally started hosting it from my house in 2015. My regular Windows 7 desktop running a no-ip DDNS client, with Ubuntu Linux in a VirtualBox VM, port 80 port-forwarded to it. Good times.
But Radicalized – it was the events after Jan 6, where AWS/Apple/Google shutdown Parler and some other right-leaning sites. For all the other truly horrible shit that exists on the internet, the speed/way they colluded to shut that shit down was scary. At that point it was crystal clear that the bigs can/will shut you down on a whim and it was imperative to control your own data/infrastructure and having multiple options for connectivity and key service providers.