Good FOSS software and reliable service providers? Etc.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    My ip updates maybe once every three months or so, but what i did was just write a script that checks the current ip and updates the domain registrar. My domain is on cloud flare, and they have an API through which I can do it. It’s literally one POST request. There are solutions out there but I wanted a really simple solution I fully understand so I just did this. Script runs in cron every few hours and that’s it.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Way too much for sure.

      Just the business internet to get the foot in the door for a static IP 5x’s the cost of my Internet.

      It’s actually cheaper to just have DC IPs and proxy through hosted containers. Which is kind of crazy.

      Negative aspect is that DC IPs aren’t treated very nice.

    • DynamoSunshirtSandals@possumpat.io
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      11 hours ago

      exactly. I literally have a bash script that calls the API triggered by cron every 30 minutes. That’s it. Are people seriously using a freaking docker container for this?

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          1 hour ago

          Ah, a history would be nice. I’ve been thinking of keeping some stats to monitor when the connection goes down, and how often my IP changes.

          Fortunately I’ve kept the same IP since i changed ISPs a few months ago.

          Personally I still think docker is overkill for something that can be done with a bash script. But I also use a Pi 4 as my home server, so I need to be a little more scrupulous of CPU and RAM and storage than most :-)

    • sithOP
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      20 hours ago

      Looks good. Thanks!

    • conrad82@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Me too. I use uptime kuma to send the api request. then I also get uptime status 🙂

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      20 hours ago

      Probably good, but I want to stay away from anything related to Kubernetes. My experience is that it’s an overkill black hole of constant debugging. Unfortunately. Thanks though!

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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      20 hours ago

      Interesting, this seems to have better documentation and feedback than the external-dns operator