In search for free domain I got IPQuick. It gives a random domain for any IP4&6. I know not reliable for commercial use but I just want a domain for nextcloud,fediverse and mail.

Questions 1.Is not IP keeps changing in short time will I need to Keep generating domains? 2.Any one using it?

    • Ambuj Yadav@programming.devOPEnglish
      182·
      10 months ago

      Because I am school student (16yr) from INDIA. Here u have to give record of each penny to parents and If say them that I just want a domain for self hosting my personal stuff I will not be able to say something else.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        I was where you are too and 2$/month or even per year seemed crazy to me if I could get it for free

        If you’re at home and want to point to your home IP, but it constantly changes, the easiest is Dynamic DNS.

        You can find more.

        If you have a stable IP, there also free top level domains .TK / .ML / .GA / .CF / .GQ over at https://www.freenom.com/ . Their frontend is down sometimes, but once you have a domain and are point it to an IP, you should be dandy.

        Good luck :)

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        • Ambuj Yadav@programming.devOPEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Thnx, Btw I use a Cellular data (and sometimes wifi of neighbors.) How to know My IP remains same or keep changing?

          • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Check https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see your IP address once you’re connected to either network, but with a high likelihood, it’s almost certainly different IPs. In that case, Dynamic DNS is probably best.

            But if you’re using your neighbor’s wifi, I doubt there’s a way for you to host stuff unless you have access to their routers, can open ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), and forward them to your server. It’s best to use hardware you control (including the router).

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          • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Not sure which ports are required for your usage but maybe cloudflared would work? It works on the free tier as well, you can install cloudflared on your linux/windows server (no BSD support afaik).

            Freenom’s domains are pretty unstable, they lost management for .ga domains last year and they often claim others’ free domain when they have high usage.

            though if you have unstable network I won’t suggest self hosting fediverse stuff.

      • tapdattl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Can you make the domain somehow personalized to you so you can say its for an online resume to further your education and employability? If you happen to host other personal stuff that won’t cost you anything extra, just make sure you have a fancy looking CV at the root.

    • rar@discuss.onlineEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Be careful OP that after first year you have to pay the ‘renew’ price, which is generally higher than ‘register’ price. A lot of cheap domain offers use that trick expecting users to become attached to their domains.

    • rodbiren@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Had really good experience with this option. Namecheap seems quite reasonable. Also, self hosting on other’s domain can cause a lot of issues as you try creating enough paths for everything. I have found subdomain routing to work much better as a lot of applications get sad when their host url is something like blarg.com/gitea or something.