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

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Paddy66@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨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
    

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  • RecitalMatchbox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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