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What can you do with your own domain name in regards to self hosting? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Own_Career_7388@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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One perk that someone told me about is that you can use your domain to get around not having a static IP (because the DNS will compensate).

If I were to get a Cloudflare domain name then what would be some other pros and cons?

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[–] Krieg@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Cloudflare tunnels so I don't have to open any port in my network. You can do this even with the Cloudflare free tier. And the byproduct is DNS for free for your domain name, I actually moved the Cloudflare because DNS was getting too expensive with my domain name provider.