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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by dingleberrylover@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

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)

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[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, it can't hurt to cross it off. You don't need to get a domain from a registrar that offers dynamic DNS, you just need to register a domain (or try another dynamic DNS like the other user suggested) and use a DNS provider that is free and offers an API. I personally use Cloudflare, there are plenty of guides for setting up a dynamic record on CF.

For registering a domain you can use an affordable registrar, I'm a Porkbun customer - for a .com domain it's like $11 for a year. No need to spend monthly.

[–] dingleberrylover@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I looked into porkbun and it seems that they already offer a Cloudflare API for dynamic DNS. Why did you choose to separately use Cloudflare? Bit otherwise it looks promising to give it a try.