For most personal projects, hosting on the cloud may be overkill, but tempting with its supposed ease of use and benefits of scale. Self-hosting is often overlooked as a solution with the benefit of simplicity and cost.

Interesting discussion and demonstration of self hosting the kinds of apps most personal projects will end being.

  • Kuvwert@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    My local ISP is the same, no static ip without a business plan.

    So I use cloudflare tunnels now and they can pound sand

    Edit: tail scale funnels could also be a good option

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      6 months ago

      Why do you need a static ip? For a business case I get it. But for most stuff… Dns is there for a reason.

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        6 months ago

        Because when my IP address changes all my websites stop point to the services. Unless I go and change the A record in my DNS every time that happens, which is frustrating and annoying. Cloud flare tunnels fixed that for me so that no matter what happens my domains are fixed to the local host services in my machine with no port forwarding and no DNS maintenance

        • nintendiator@feddit.cl
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          6 months ago

          Because when my IP address changes all my websites stop point to the services

          Stuff like no-ip and dyndns exist for that specific usecase.

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            6 months ago

            Exactly this. I’ve been using afraid dns for over a decade. Easy to setup and is basically instant.

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          6 months ago

          I have a static IP now, but I used to have a script in my cron that would update the IP address my Cloud Flare points to if it needed to. It was super easy.