Used to have a tool specifically to route my dynamic IP to something static, without buying a domain name, back when I first hosted a website on my own regular home PC as a teen called "No-IP."
Not sure if it's still a thing.
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Free ones are less common now (no-ip went paid.) Afraiddns is still free but requires regular account logins.
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I'm currently testing out jellyfin. Have it through my reverse proxy and using the ldap authentication with authentik. Works fine and nice having two-factor authentication.
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