Hi everyone,
Edit2: I bought a domain (1,50€ p.m.) from a European service which also offers dynDNS functionality. Just needed to adjust my NGINX config and generated new SSL-certificates via Certbot. I also built a script that only issues the update URL if the actually IP has changed. The system has been running flawlessy now for a couple of days already. No outages or any other connection issues. Learning: even though the dynDNS functionality should work stable in theory (since there is not much going on), the dynDNS service provider actually plays a big role in terms of reliability.
a couple of friends and I have a Jellyfin server running which is exposed to the internet via a reverse-proxy and https by using a free dynDNS provider.
The setup is working fine besides the dynDNS provider. We constantly face connection issues, making the dynamic DNS functionality very unreliable.
So I started looking into possible solutions and one particular would be to buy an own domain which would only cost a few bucks each month. With this I could keep the current setup and would just need to change the domain (and possibly the SSL certificate). I found a provider over which I could buy (rent?) a domain and which also provides dynDNS functionality. But I am not too sure if I understood this correctly:
- if I have an own domain, why would I need the additional dynDNS functionality? I would guess that I would just continue updating your server's IP address to the domain name like we are doing now
- can the provider over which I rent the domain with servers in my country actually see what our traffic is? Especially since we are streaming our movies etc.
- is there a better way of obtaining and setting up your own domain also in terms of privacy and reliability than with a bigger company offering such services?
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Edit: An important fact I forgot to add in my main post is that during these issues, the general server connection should be fine since it is located at a friends house and his internet connection is unaffected (e.g. we could still talk in Discord normally and he had no internet issues whatsoever)
I am in the same boat (learning on the go, living in EU and using fail2ban and reverse proxy although I use nginx). Sounds good that it runs so well for you! Where did you register your domain? I'll look into BunnyCDN as well.
@dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
It's a domain I've had for 15 years (I keep renewing) and I registered with 123-reg.
If you 're in the EU definitely check out Bunny. They're based in Slovenia. I used their free trial, to test it all out. After that their pricing is competitive, and mostly if you're a single user homelab type you'll pay nothing. At least, that's been my experience for the past 8 months. My use falls well under their provided no charge tier.
I looked at using nginx however I liked what I read and saw of Caddy (it seemed easier for me). I don't do anything very clever and Caddy is working great for me.
*I'm not associated with them other than to be a customer. Prior to switching to Bunny I used Cloudflare free level but I wanted to get away from anything associated with the USA and their (lack of ) data protection laws.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions and feedback! I also would like to use services within the EU, so I will give Bunny a closer look.