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  • Are you just talking about dynamic DNS services for one or a few home servers?

    There’s always DynDNS, but that’s a paid service. I actually discovered that dynamic IP address service was provided free by Google when using Google Domains as the registrar, so I moved a few of my private domains over to Google several years ago to save myself $55 a year.

    Unfortunately, Google Domains is shutting down and all registrar services and existing customer domains are getting moved to squarespace and I’ve not yet been able to determine if squarespace is going to be offering the free dynamic DNS service or not.






  • By claiming that the problem isn’t DDOS, you’re just advertising your ignorance. Cloudflair is outstanding for protecting static web content against DDOS, and Lemmy.world is well protected against that. The problem is certain dynamic pages and api calls that can only be rendered from costly realtime dynamic database operations…those are the url that the DDOS attackers are focusing on and those are the kinds of content that cannot be easily protected by cloudflair.

    Your premise, though, is still accidently correct. The way to mitigate instances being targeted by DDOS is to spread the user base and community hosting across a vast number of instances so that no one instance is such a rewarding target for DDOS attack.