Comment on Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?

Paddy66@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  (It’s an Asus RT-AX86U Pro - so fairly chunky in terms of spec)

  I have your exact router make and model! I self host my own domain on my home network and make use of the built in DDNS.

  I would suggest looking into Asus WRT Merlin Firmware, the custom firmware enables more functionality to your router.

  Docker containers for

  1. Ghost
  2. Nginx Proxy Manager

  When hosting a reverse proxy like Nginx, Traefik, SWAG, Pangolin, etc keep in mind you 80:80 and 443:443 ports need to be exposed to the host machine then you will forward those ports on your router. This will allow your reverse proxy to communicate with Lets Encrypt creating your SSL certificates Liz

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  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Regarding Lets Encrypt you don’t your server doesn’t need to be accessible from the internet if you use the DNS-01 challenge. Caddy with the caddy-dns plugin for your provider can do that automatically for you.

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• SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That would be a good place to start. Which providers does it support?

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seconding this, it is very convenient if it supports a good provider. But it is better imo to use a good provider with a helper script on your server than to stick with your router defaults if they’re not that good.

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    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hope this helps:

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• Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Running a service like ddclient may give you more options at the cost of being more complicated.

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