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hi everyone,

I was just about to self-host a Ghost blog but then was warned that my ISP might change my external IP address at any time, so I would need to pay for a static IP address.

Is that true?

(I'd not seen much about that in stuff I've looked up so far about self hosting)

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[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does anyone know of a short course I could do/attend that teaches the basics of this networking stuff?

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your local college might do networking courses/stuff. honestly though, there's enough youtube content out there by really respected people that you can likely just get away with that... Start with words/topics you see mentioned in this thread. Example, search youtube for DDNS... and if that video says something you don't understand search for that topic. Eventually you'll have a decent grasp on what's going on.

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

yeah fair play - I'll go that route. Do you happen to know any content creators who explain stuff well in this area?

(Context - our self-hosting is part of a wider project to make self-hosting easier, on the cheap, for normies)