In search for free domain I got one but some questions
In search for free domain I got IPQuick.
It gives a random domain for any IP4&6.
I know not reliable for commercial use but I just want a domain for nextcloud,fediverse and mail.
Questions
1.Is not IP keeps changing in short time will I need to Keep generating domains?
2.Any one using it?
Just pay the few dollars per year and have a stable and reputable domain.
Certainly for fediverse i'd want a stable domain, these are usually hard to migrate.
Because I am school student (16yr) from INDIA.
Here u have to give record of each penny to parents and If say them that I just want a domain for self hosting my personal stuff I will not be able to say something else.
If you have a stable IP, there also free top level domains .TK / .ML / .GA / .CF / .GQ over at https://www.freenom.com/ . Their frontend is down sometimes, but once you have a domain and are point it to an IP, you should be dandy.
Can you make the domain somehow personalized to you so you can say its for an online resume to further your education and employability? If you happen to host other personal stuff that won't cost you anything extra, just make sure you have a fancy looking CV at the root.
Be careful OP that after first year you have to pay the 'renew' price, which is generally higher than 'register' price. A lot of cheap domain offers use that trick expecting users to become attached to their domains.
Had really good experience with this option. Namecheap seems quite reasonable. Also, self hosting on other's domain can cause a lot of issues as you try creating enough paths for everything. I have found subdomain routing to work much better as a lot of applications get sad when their host url is something like blarg.com/gitea or something.
Assuming that you mean that you are using the domain name to point to services which are at a residential, dynamic IP address, you will need to set up a Dynamic DNS service.
While I normally agree on #2, it doesnt really apply to Tailscale. Tailscale isn't completely free, they have a free tier to generate business but it's limited to 3 users per tailnet. Also its cryptographically impossible for them to snoop on your traffic.
I was referring to OP's use of IPQuick. This isn't a service I'm familiar with and it doesn't seem to be affiliated with any organization that I'm familiar with either.
In a normal domain/DNS scenario, you need to make sure your domain points to the correct IP. Most registrars have websites where you can manage which domain points to which domain in the DNS records.
I don't know, maybe ?
But I recommand strongly to have your own domain name.
As long as you do nothing illegal, when you own a domain name, you have legal recourse to keep it. It's not the case for an email service mail like gmail, which can ban you for no reason tomorrow, and you have no recourse to get back your email address back.
I don't want to be rude but if you can't afford a domain you probably shouldn't be hosting a fediverse server.
Honestly do you even need to expose services to the internet? Internet exposure is dangerous and is not necessary for 95% of things. You can use a mesh VPN like netbird or Tailscale if you need remote access.
This isn't me trying to offend you I just think it would be wise to reduce the scope of you projects.
I think you can get a free subdomain and dynamic DNS service at https://desec.io, with this you should be able to keep the domain updated with your IP and point it at your home server. But you need to have a public IP from your ISP and not to be behind NAT.
Anither option is to use a Tailscale Funnel. You will have to use a .ts.net subdomain with them and they terminate TLS and re-encrypt for you. On the other hand it's completely free, you get NAT traversal, an encrypted tunnel, and you don't have to maintain the IP even if it's dynamic.
Not an expert, but AFAICT email self hosting is not considered a good idea, as the maintenance of an email server requires a lot of work. An alternative could be using Cloudflare for the DNS and set up email routing (for free).
Have you tried it after the recent updates? They added ddos protection so now the network isn't nearly as vulnerable to attacks. Before they were getting hit over and over by some large actor who seemed to want to break i2p routing.
One caveat though, you need to be careful of the Indian government coming after you. I don't live in India bit I hear they are banning and or attacking services that allow for circumvention of censorship and India seems to be hostel to people seeking privacy.
This one will be a bit trickier because of federation. Maybe it is even impossible. But for git hosting, website hosting, email, your cloud, various chats software or torrents it should just work.
Don't do this, this is a seriously bad idea on multiple fronts. Buy a domain that's reasonably priced and you will be much better off. (gen.xyz is cheap)
What I have in my setup is a VPS that routes traffic into a separate network that has all my services in it. This way I don't need to expose my home to the public Internet