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I bought a domain name. Now what? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Shortstack_Sean98@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hello everybody,

I bought a domain name on Hover.com and wanted to know how I can connect my homelab to it. So far I've got the domain connected to Cloudflare but I have absolutely no idea how to go about getting everything set up on the networking side of things. Does anybody have some useful tips/guides/videos that could help?

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[–] phein4242@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Start by reading what DNS can do. Good luck!

[–] pc817@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

With namecheap I can setup dynamic DNS on my router and it keeps my domains pointing directly to my home ip, at that point you can point directly to a server on your network with port forwarding or use a reverse proxy or whatever internally. I actually only point one domain at my house then CNAME everything to that domain, works great for me

[–] seeyahlater@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Put it behind cloudflare and look in reverse proxies. By far the easiest to get started with is nginx reverse proxy. It has a nice UI. Next move up to traefik or other reverse proxy solutions.

[–] Shortstack_Sean98@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I've got it set up with Cloudflared Tunnel now, but I noticed that I wouldn't be able to use Jellyfin without breaking TOS. Would using Traefik or Nginx Proxy Manager work to bypass that?

[–] nitroV32@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Cloudflare is a good start, start a Google cloud trial as well and set up oauth2 for logging into your public cloudflare tunnels so you're not solely relying on the strength of your services' passwords. It's been working very well for my lab as of late.

[–] weirdinibba@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Pm me, I just recently set up my homelab, would be happy to share configs to get it working with cloudflared tunnels! Also have some other resources