Comment on Useful apps to self-host

• shiftymccool@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends on your router. I have an Asus and it has a free ddns option through their domain. I point my Wireguard client at this address and never think of it again. That way, the only port that’s open on your router is a Wireguard port and they don’t respond to sniffing.

  If that’s not a possibility, I had a ddns service before that for like $2/month

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  • Turun@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a vps for 2€/month. It’s not a powerful machine, but easily enough to host wireguard and caddy.

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  • Discover5164@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    maybe is specific to my country, but here the majority of network plans have a CGNAT down the line. So we have a private ip at the router and there is no way to reach it, unless you reley the traffic to a third point.

    if you want a public ip (even dynamic) you need to pay up

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No he doesn’t mean a static IP, he means a publicly routable IP. That’s not something DDNS will help you with.

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• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  True. But pretty much the same applies for dynamic DNS services, except you have to trust your dynamic DNS provider.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DDNS won’t help you if your IP isn’t a public IP

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It makes a tunnel through to you and links to that.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        DDNS doesn’t do tunneling. DDNS is a solution to a changing public IP, not something like CGNAT.

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