Own_Career_7388 ( @Own_Career_7388@alien.top ) B Self-Hosted Main@selfhosted.forumEnglish • 10 months ago
One perk that someone told me about is that you can use your domain to get around not having a static IP (because the DNS will compensate).
If I were to get a Cloudflare domain name then what would be some other pros and cons?
You’d need to implement Dynamic DNS to update the records. DNS alone won’t do that.
Correct. I used NOIP for years until I realized that 1) my IP address is static and 2) my home IP address was being exposed. (Pretty obvious I know but sometimes I am slow on the uptake 😃)
My solution was to get a $5 per month vps and reverse proxy and reverse ssh tunnels.
The $5 / month VPS ($60/year) was pretty much the cost of NOIP per year to use custom domains.
I just use duckdns as a free dynamic IP service. But you are correct about it exposing your home IP. Personally I’m not concerned about that so it works for me. Then I use Apache to route my incoming traffic depending on subdomain.
There are docker containers that auto update cloudflare a records for dynamic IP.