I met a guy a while ago who's passion was enabling self-hosting. His vision was to use an old android phone as a server--he ended up building a domain registrar[1] to facilitate OAuth-style flows for configuring DNS and an ngrok-style proxy[2] service that could configure DNS through said flow.
Unrelated to the article, but a creative Canadian flag used the title to spell words out. They slowly circled characters in the title. I thought I was deciphering a cool message… but it was just "whore"
Yep, my website (very WIP) is hosted on an RPi 5 in the corner of my apartment, and every once in a while my IP changes and I have to update DNS and tell my friends to connect to the minecraft server by IP. I'm probably around 98% uptime, so github levels of assurance.
I have a small cluster I use to run my personal server/nvr/etc on. Instead of Raspberry Pi, I just bought some small mini pcs, which are amazingly powerful and cheap for their size. I have them stashed in a few random places around the house near my switches. Works great!
Dear Mr. Architect, I've noticed you make this historical link effort frequently, so I hope it's okay to express my appreciation, and gently request you include a little more detail about what is behind it (age + comment count). Otherwise it's hard to know if a link is worth clicking or not.
I met a guy a while ago who's passion was enabling self-hosting. His vision was to use an old android phone as a server--he ended up building a domain registrar[1] to facilitate OAuth-style flows for configuring DNS and an ngrok-style proxy[2] service that could configure DNS through said flow.
[1]: https://takingnames.io/ [2]: https://boringproxy.io/
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Unrelated to the article, but a creative Canadian flag used the title to spell words out. They slowly circled characters in the title. I thought I was deciphering a cool message… but it was just "whore"
Yep, my website (very WIP) is hosted on an RPi 5 in the corner of my apartment, and every once in a while my IP changes and I have to update DNS and tell my friends to connect to the minecraft server by IP. I'm probably around 98% uptime, so github levels of assurance.
I solved this with a corn tab that runs a script that checks my ip and updates my cloudflare dns if it changes. https://github.com/pastorhudson/cloudflare_dns_updater
Why not use DDNS?
Alternatively your domain provider likely has some API for you to programmatically update the DNS records.
I have a small cluster I use to run my personal server/nvr/etc on. Instead of Raspberry Pi, I just bought some small mini pcs, which are amazingly powerful and cheap for their size. I have them stashed in a few random places around the house near my switches. Works great!
(2022) Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33165836
Dear Mr. Architect, I've noticed you make this historical link effort frequently, so I hope it's okay to express my appreciation, and gently request you include a little more detail about what is behind it (age + comment count). Otherwise it's hard to know if a link is worth clicking or not.
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I enjoyed this article very much. It used 99% of my CPU though.
And to avoid technicalities, make it big enough so you can see and use it.
How to Create a Cache Server?
https://cyfuture.cloud/kb/howto/how-to-create-a-cache-server
Claude-Code has turbo charged my (basement) RPi4 development.
Same here! This is an underrated use of LLMs - actually being able to finish weird side projects.