The title says it all. I am going to start self-hosting soon (still waiting for some hardware). Do you have any tips or advice to give me? I am planning on buying a domain name on Porkbun and start hosting

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  • fraichu@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago
    • Can give NixOS a try if you want to make things extra hard and get more satisfaction from finishing. The biggest advantage is most of your OS & services config will be in a file, so there’s no need to remember a thousand knobs to tune the experience just the way you want - a text file in a git repo will be all your config.
    • I’d recommend Namecheap over porkbun. I found porkbun has less features. I specifically needed to wildcard forward email, which works well on namecheap.
    • If you’re from Africa, India or some other country where $10 / year is a lot I recommend a 111 class B domain https://gen.xyz/1111b for $1 / year.
    • Do you have static IPv4 or globally routable public IPv6 address assigned to your device? I’m ipv6 only selfhoster, and I use inadyn and afraid
    • Can use wireguard and then later open ssh once you feel more comfortable.
    • Jvrava9@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I think that I will stick with ubuntu server for now, I run Artix on my main pc and dont feel like trying out NixOS yet… I heard bad bad things about Namecheap. Dynamicly allocated IPV4 but I never saw it change and I am plannig to monitor its changes to redirect my domain name to the right ip if it ever changes. I am already familiar with ssh thx. Thx for the help!