Comment on is it possible to host a small instance on your pc without renting anything?
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agoYou don’t need a static IP to have a domain name, and you don’t always need to pay for a domain name either.
Comment on is it possible to host a small instance on your pc without renting anything?
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agoYou don’t need a static IP to have a domain name, and you don’t always need to pay for a domain name either.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
That’s why I said or. You need a static address of some kind for Lemmy; be it just an IP or a domain name. I haven’t seen domain names given away for free since I was in high school; where would you get one now?
acid_falcon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cloudflare has a free tier for domains, although they’re a little sketch. But they also support DDNS, so which updates the IP that your domain points to when it changes