my dream of hosting a few services mostly for personal use is alive and kicking tyvm
Just renewed and I’m upset as well
Just set up auto renew and be sad when you are charged, then forget about it in a few days.
Wow this was me yesterday. Opened Namecheap and saw the 10 domains I have sitting there doing nothing.
Ooo this hurts deep. I was paying hosting and domain, but now just domain since the site needed a refresh and one day I will get around to it…
Mate, I went full slog and got a vps. Now each site is a virtual host. I did have individual landers in each host, but now they just redirect to my main site.
Which is a lander 🤣
My dream of pressing a red button with pay $12 on it will never be fulfilled 😥
My domain is just used so I can reverse-proxy my homelab for people who don’t know anything about vpn, etc.
I got a domain that I only use for email right now but I’d love to set something like this up. Any recommendations on tutorials?
Get started with a Linux server and then I’d go with something like Nextcloud in a Docker container. Then do reverse proxy, nginx on the host is very easy. You can get and update SSL certs with certbot (Let’s Encrypt).
Just do Caddy instead of nginx/cerbot all that garbage. Caddy just simply handles it all for you: Subdomains, wildcard certs, authentication, ssl
My whole caddy config file is like 6 lines; something like
@mydomain.com {ipaddress:portpath:/}And you can do all sorts of plugins that make it compatible with fail2ban, etc.
I hear Traefik is pretty easy to set up too.
Yeah, I use it for personal link sharing for Immich. Sharing photos is a breeze.
“######.xyz” was cheap as chips. Now I’m using Https I want to stay there so I was thinking about getting a more convenient domain, but then I’d have to migrate… So £12 it is
I don’t even know why everyone keeps getting these no-name bullshit tlds. .com is $12/yr, it basically never changes…
For me, it was the cheapest entry.
I used to have like 30 domains. Then last week I bought another one so now I have like 31 domains.
I bought it for a good reason though.
Oh neat.
Gym memberships: “Hold my beer.”
I have one that I use for services that other people need to get to. Otherwise I just remember the IP.
No https?
I’ve heard that Let’s Encrypt recently started issuing certificates for IP addresses. I’m unable to find the article at the moment though.
Oh, they stopped the excuses finally? Not a “huge security problem” and “impossible to verify real ownership” anymore?
I mean, there are many ISPs out there that don’t provide a static. You can easily end up with a very for an IP you don’t currently have control over.
Okay fair point
Well the domain helps with that for sure, especially for things like let’s encrypt. But my other stuff is running through Tailscale/headscale so https isn’t really necessary.
$12 is 2018 prices
I just renewed my .com for USD $11.08 and that’s not even the cheapest registrar. Some companies will absolutely rip you off on renewals though.
My .xyz domain is $13 on renewal, where should I move to attain lower prices?
You can check tld-list.com to see who has the best prices.
A lot of the price data is inaccurate or outdated. They didn’t include Namecheap’s latest 2 price increases, for example (fuck Namecheap)
A good starting point, but be sure to double check prices
I paid $11.08 too on porkbun, but it’s a .com domain
question, i bought domains a few times, and the first year is super cheap, then the second year they jack up the prices. no, I’m not paying 140$ for a domain I only use for my kids Minecraft server.
that’s why you always look at renewal prices and never first year prices. tld-list.com has a good comparison.
A lot of the big ones like to jack the prices up every year. Just dropped Namecheap because my domain tripled in price over 3 years
Who did you go to?
They start at 50€/Month but get cheaper over time!
thanks, that’s what i need to know
Make sure you’re buying .com or another common standard TLD and not some weird TLD with super high prices.
And check the renewal price, if your registrar doesn’t make it very clear then go somewhere else.
Thats why I bought a dirt cheap domain that is entirely numbers, and it renews for 10 dollars every 10 years.
I just need to remember the digits.
<string of digits>.xyz
Those are class 1.111B domains. I actually buy them a little cheaper, but have to do it one year at a time. It’s only 6-9 digits though, not any string of digits
Heh. I own https://9007199254740991.com/
It’s the max safe integer in double precision floating point format.
Wait you’re the port87 guy
Yeah. :)
JoCo reference is top tier
You’re the first person to mention it. :)
So… you reinvented ip addresses.
With subdomains and ddos protection
Can you recommend a good site to find/check these prices? No problem if not, I’m utterly clueless and entirely curious lol.
Cloudflare sells domains at cost
my domains were also dirty cheap. they jacked up the prices afterwards because they can
I have a .us domain, I don’t even remember what I pay, I only do it every 6 years, it’s so cheap…
you must have a high traffic TLD like a .ai or .sucks or something.
one was .eu, another .uk
don’t remember the rest
I wish I could keep my dreams alive for $12.
yeah a box of good reeds costs more than that
Guys one day, my nixos config WILL hold both my pc and home server configuration, just gotta block out 3 months to get it bootable
I’m in this meme, and I don’t like it.
Me too. My nextcloud has been dead for years at this point.
