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?
inbox@yourdomain.com
(better not to self-host, but to use an email provider)I use DNS challenges for mine as well, but I have been manually renewing my cert every time. Is there a way to automate letsencrypt/cerbot renewal when you use DNS challenges?
can recommend acme.sh if on Linux
Just a note, as we’ve had this discussion before: DNS ACME challenges will publish the FQDN of every service you encrypt to a public record, which some sites will scrape up. Just in case this bothers some people.
Just to be clear for OP, that applies only for protocols that “support DNS” as in, they send the DNS in the protocol.
The one I have in mind: http(s) and emails.
Games, FTP and most of the protocols don’t.
Still a bit wrong. You can use things like Portzilla and make it so that certain subdomains are for certain game servers.
You can also just use a web server like apache and have it forward the traffic to the correct place depending on the sub domain. This is what I do, I can have minecraft.mydomain.com route to 192.168.1.40:5000 and valheim.mydomain.com route to 192.168.1.40:27015.
Hum, then I am missing something because portzilla is just a reverse proxy by the look of it
This mean:
Or
I assumed OP was in IPV4 and only has one IP.
Just to be sure from my other assumptions (kinda ELI5)
This is how networking works. Only with IP, no DNS.