I’m using DuckDNS currently, but am hoping to up my game with Caddy etc and want my own domain with more than the 5 subdomains. Any recommendations for providers?

  • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve had good experiences with Namecheap for domains. Some of their support people are also in Ukraine, so if you’re of a mind to support them, giving them your business will do that at least a little.

    One word of advice–it can be smart to have the domain name with one provider, and the hosting with a different one. That way if your hosting situation goes bad for whatever reason, you still have control of your domain and can point it at a new host as quickly as you can buy space and they can provision it (with time for DNS to propagate of course).

    Basically, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. When I did webhost support, I saw WAY too many small business owners get into pickles because they had hosting AND domain with the same provider, and when something went wrong with that provider, it was just such a huge PITA to get control of the domain.

    No recs for hosting, I don’t currently have a webpage up (just email) and my knowledge is way out of date, from like 2008 when I worked for a webhost as support.

    • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      One word of advice–it can be smart to have the domain name with one provider, and the hosting with a different one.

      If OP is thinking of DDNS, he might be looking at hosting from home. If you’re using a VPS, the IP generally doesn’t change so DDNS isn’t really required.

      I agree with your Namecheap recommendation though. I use it to access my docker containers that’s running on a NAS box at home. My router runs the DDNS client and periodically notifies Namecheap whenever my home IP changes.

  • nik282000@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I was with Google Domains but switched to Namecheap. They are easy enough to work with and not the most expensive.

  • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I used Google Domains for many years.

    I think mostly because it came as a package with my Google Workspace account.

    But the whole "selling their domain accounts to Squarespace and not even bothering to notify us kind of turned me off to them.

    I am now happily using Cloudflare instead.

    Frankly I don’t miss it.
    The rates seem a tiny bit cheaper and the API/etc is far more advanced.

    I suspect I will be much happier with Cloudflare in the long run