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Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus 1 week agoAny suggestions on where to start when looking into buying and setting up a domain?
I’ve been with NameCheap for over a decade. They’re a relatively quiet company that’s been around a while.
They’ve never done anything to make me want to change providers. Have my email through them as well. Good uptime. Ok-ish prices. Good customer service the one time I’ve needed it. Web site takes some getting used to, but it’s also never changed since I started using them.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 week ago Only thing they did once was lock me out of my account with endless CAPTCHAs, even with 2FA enabled.
Eventually they fixed it
I’d recommend buying a domain through Cloudflare. Once you have one, you can create subdomains and point them to services running on your home server. Cloudflare’s dashboard makes the DNS side pretty straightforward.
I mean I cheated and used chatgpt to help figure it out. But it’s more or less 3 programs max running on whatever server you’re using and using the cloudflare UI to redirect the traffic to the right place
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A cheap way to start is noip.com. You can get a domain name for free, you just need to check in every 3 months to say you are still using it. It’s big enough that many routers support it.
After 2 years of checking in every 3 months I paid for their next tier of service where you don’t have to check in and get multiple domains etc. So their free service marketing worked.