Good FOSS software and reliable service providers? Etc.

    • mapumbaa@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Probably good, but I want to stay away from anything related to Kubernetes. My experience is that it’s an overkill black hole of constant debugging. Unfortunately. Thanks though!

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Interesting, this seems to have better documentation and feedback than the external-dns operator

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Way too much for sure.

      Just the business internet to get the foot in the door for a static IP 5x’s the cost of my Internet.

      It’s actually cheaper to just have DC IPs and proxy through hosted containers. Which is kind of crazy.

      Negative aspect is that DC IPs aren’t treated very nice.

      • kalpol@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yeah this has been the biggest problem with hosting. For SMTP to work outbound you gotta have a good static IP. Everything else can be DDNSed. So either you get a business class connection or proxy through a VPS front end.

  • Brownian Motion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    530·
    2 months ago

    Good FOSS software and reliable service providers? Etc.

    Wow much detail. You’re gonna get so much help.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Cloudflare DDNS updated by ddclient on my OpnSense router. Cloudflare happens to be my current domain registrar. Honestly, my IPv4 doesn’t change that often. And when I used to be on Comcast, they assigned a block of IPv6 addresses and the router dealt with that. Unfortunately, I now have Quantum Fiber who only assign a single IPv6 address, so I gave up on IPv6 for now.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Just a practice I’ve had over the years with domains: separate your registrar and your DNS. If one goes down, or out of business, you can fix it if you still control the other and its accessible. If you have both of them in one place, it’s really hard to get that domain transferred.

    • DynamoSunshirtSandals@possumpat.ioEnglish
      131·
      2 months ago

      exactly. I literally have a bash script that calls the API triggered by cron every 30 minutes. That’s it. Are people seriously using a freaking docker container for this?

        • Jess@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I just dump the changes with timestamps to a text file. Notifications for IP changes get sent to matrix after the DNS record is updated.

        • DynamoSunshirtSandals@possumpat.ioEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Ah, a history would be nice. I’ve been thinking of keeping some stats to monitor when the connection goes down, and how often my IP changes.

          Fortunately I’ve kept the same IP since i changed ISPs a few months ago.

          Personally I still think docker is overkill for something that can be done with a bash script. But I also use a Pi 4 as my home server, so I need to be a little more scrupulous of CPU and RAM and storage than most :-)

          • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            2 months ago

            Even if it is docker it’s still a bash script or something in the container right? Or are people referring to the docker CLI directly changing DNS records somehow?

            My best guess is the reason to involve docker would be if you already have a cluster of containers as part of the project. Then you can have a container that does nothing but manage the DNS.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My ip updates maybe once every three months or so, but what i did was just write a script that checks the current ip and updates the domain registrar. My domain is on cloud flare, and they have an API through which I can do it. It’s literally one POST request. There are solutions out there but I wanted a really simple solution I fully understand so I just did this. Script runs in cron every few hours and that’s it.