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I finally bought a domain! Now what (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 week ago by philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi everyone

Thanks for all the advice on buying a domain. Its a big week for me. Getting on grapheneos, buying a domain, and I also recently started self hosting my contacts and calendar. I love this way of life.

My original plan was to one of the xyz 1.1111b domains for $1 a year but most of the feedback I got said just go with cloudflare. Its a lot more money than I had planned but all the security features are baked in and I feel that's worth the extra money.

Here are my questions. I use the latest version of truenas community

  1. How do I connect my domain to my server apps? I've got a series of apps I'd love to he able to access without tailscale and solely use the domain.
  2. I have heard the term DNS a million times but don't really understand it. What do.I need to know about DNS to keep security up and stay protected
  3. I'd like to let family access my media server, are there any considerations I need to make?
  4. How can I use one domain to access multiple services on my server? Do I need to pay extra for subdomains?

Thank you for any advice

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[–] pmk@piefed.ca 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My general advice at this point is, if you haven't already, to document the setup for your future self. It quickly gets out of hand with the amount of passwords, credentials, certificates, firewall settings, docker containers left and right, configs, workarounds, custom shell scripts, ansible scripts, git repos, backup locations and passwords, etc. Right now everything is fresh in your mind, but 6 months from now you may need to restore from a backup or an OS upgrade goes wrong, and then you'll appreciate being able to remember the details.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I second this! I've learned to note everything down during my experience installing services with Proxmox, and have recently started converting my notes to Public guides, just in case it helps anyone to not start from scratch

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago

Great tip, thank you