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 🤣

[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago (8 children)

My domain is just used so I can reverse-proxy my homelab for people who don't know anything about vpn, etc.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I use it for personal link sharing for Immich. Sharing photos is a breeze.

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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 5 months ago

Gym memberships: "Hold my beer."

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

$12 is 2018 prices

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My .xyz domain is $13 on renewal, where should I move to attain lower prices?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can check tld-list.com to see who has the best prices.

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[–] einkorn@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, maybe OP has been holding on to it for quite few years by now.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Just got this in my email today:

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] example@reddthat.com 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

that's why you always look at renewal prices and never first year prices. tld-list.com has a good comparison.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

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.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could keep my dreams alive for $12.

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[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm in this meme, and I don't like it.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean. It does make me feel better knowing I'm not actually alone.

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[–] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago

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

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

My dream of pressing a red button with pay $12 on it will never be fulfilled 😥

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Just renewed and I'm upset as well

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Just set up auto renew and be sad when you are charged, then forget about it in a few days.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I have one that I use for services that other people need to get to. Otherwise I just remember the IP.

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol I renew in 5 year increments

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

admit your dream is dead

pay $60

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I got a pretty great one for cheap that I want to migrate my Navidrome service to. I don't mind the $12 renewal; I just need to figure out how to host 1TB of music on the cloud for cheap.

[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

'the cloud' is just someone else's computer. The cheapest way is always going to be to use your own hardware. Get into homelabbing :D

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Yes I am aware that I am paying to use someone else's hardware. I already self-hosted lots of stuff on my own hardware, renting a server has other benefits that my own hardware doesn't, mainly guaranteed uptime.

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Define "cheap".

https://bdon.github.io/cng-storage-guide/

Note that this isn't a one-to-one guide.

Some have a minimum storage amount but with 12 TB you're fine.

I think cloudflare may be the most cost effective since they don't have egress costs like AWS.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

my dream of hosting a few services mostly for personal use is alive and kicking tyvm

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am using my domain. Best 10€ ever spent (maybe after Terraria). For just 10€ I get a .org domain name and all the DNS records I want, and I get pampered by cloudflare all the time...

"Oh, you want a distributed reverse proxy? You want a dislocated cache? You won't TLS without getting a certificate? Block AI on the proxy? Even more stuff? Well guess what, we already make a bajillion dollars from big tech, so you the little guy can have all of that included in your 10€"

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Yeah this is why I don’t get the selfhosting communities dislike of cloudflare. Most of the free stuff they give you, you can’t hope to self host. And the stuff you can, you are still free to. There’s the chance they turn on us in the future, but for now they seem pretty reliable.

Now if it’s a dislike of centralization to a single company? I can understand that.

[–] Link@feddit.nl 15 points 5 months ago

Yeah this is why I don’t get the selfhosting communities dislike of cloudflare.

There’s the chance they turn on us in the future, but for now they seem pretty reliable. Now if it’s a dislike of centralization to a single company? I can understand that.

I think that's exactly what people are concerned about. Any company that turns into a monopoly should be looked at with suspicion.

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I will never let go of bascul.in, that's for sure.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have a domain I keep because it's short, but my main one is more memorable. I just don't want to lose the short one, I'm sure I'll find a use for it one day.

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

That might be good for shortlinking

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I finally let mine go last week. RIP 🪦

[–] Link@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago

My condolences

[–] chazwhiz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

How very dare you.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Wow this was me yesterday. Opened Namecheap and saw the 10 domains I have sitting there doing nothing.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

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