This is why I never bought a domain. Can’t give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!
You can pry cuteredpanda.com from my cold dead hands.
When I click that, I only see the right side from the eye outward, of what I assume is a cute red panda. On mobile
Ah, yeah - someday I’ll make it scale better
Y u no website! Lol
Nope from me, I only get a blank page.
Seems to be working but not responsive 🥲
It’s 2024 and no HTTPS?
Works now! You should setup SSL which is super easy with Let’s Encrypt.
What benefit does SSL/HTTPS provide if the data going back and forth is just HTML? (No user names / passwords / etc.?)
I have it set up for my jellyfin server since there is login data.
Not that I won’t add it, just didn’t know there was a need
From a regular user standpoint pretty much all modern browsers throw up warnings and block the page from initially loading if it’s not https, which discourages people from viewing it.
Easy decision, I pay every time.
i did recently go through and turn off auto renewal on a few. I still have several projects i never launched though that I’m holding out hope for… someday
20 domains and counting (just got another one yesterday lmao)
You… you shut up. 🥲
bought my domain in July… still havent finished my website…
What’s stopping you from succeeding?
Funny enough I started getting more commission work through Twitter and have been focusing on that recently. The website I’m making was gonna be to serve as an art portfolio and advertise my commission services lmao
Give it a couple years… and then a few more.
Wait you guys made websites?
Why are you stressing this nice Lemming to fast track their site? It’ll take the standard 30 years. It’s fine.
Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff
Same with the HP mini PC. But I have a $12/yr dotcom domain and a script on my server updates the DNS record anytime the IP changes.
I recommend cloudflare WARP
no money spent
Well… electricity.
I used noip.com for like 30 or 60 days. Then I got really annoyed at having to renew the DDNS every 30 days. After switching to duckdns.org I haven’t had any problems whatsoever. It’s completely free and you don’t have to renew anything manually. You obliviously still need to have a script running to update the DDNS though, otherwise it wouldn’t be very dynamic would it.
This is the way. I would be lost without a domain. Even mail is selfhosted with my domain. But I only use subdomains, the real domain is abandoned.
See email is one of the few things I don’t host. I host a webmail frontend, and use my domain. But PurelyMail is an amazing service that’s so cheap it’s basically free at personal scale with very few limits. I didn’t really care to try and deal with having all my mail sent to spam.
Been with purely mail for about a year and it’s been great!
I just use stalwart - mail, it’s just one docker container, has bleeding edge functions like jmap and there is no need of deeper knowledge. I refer my domain on the settings and got a list of all needed dns-records.
It takes 2-4 days to get SSL and dmarc answers from the big mail-players and if there is nothing wrong with your IP or your records then there is no mail going into spam of someone else.
How much are you selling for?
Selling? I host things for myself, not others. Except my Lemmy instance I suppose, that’s public.
lol I’ve been squatting a couple of domains since 2001, my day will come!!!
Use your domain for your primary email address, have some regrets about it, but never be able to walk away…
That’s what I do. Anytime I need to sign up for something with an email I do:
I use wildcards for some stuff, but I mostly just use public@domain.com and have my real email for friends and family private. It’s not liked I get emails from friends and family anymore anyway. Everything is iMessage or SMS.
It’s not liked I get emails from friends and family anymore anyway.
I’ll send you an email. $12
I do the same thing, but with gmail tags.
Now if I get a spam email to that address I’ll know exactly what to block.
I am amazed at how often that gets considered an invalid email.
Same. Crazy obvious which companies are getting hacked or selling my info.
Soooo. I’m dumb. I host my overseerr on my domain that just routes to my local IP for my local desktop. How do I get email on this domain without spending dumb money on an email hosting server?
Linux + postfix (SMTP) + dovecot (IMAP and POP3) + SPF + DKIM on the host
Point the MX record for your domain to your IP address
Contact your ISP and ask them to set the PTR record for your IP to your hostname
Mail can be handled by a very low end computer, a raspberry pi can handle email for a small number of users
If you have a specific mail machine you would forward the ports you use to that host on your router.
PurelyMail is a great and cheap service. It’s like $10 per year. You just set up some records (MX and TXT) on your domain provider and that’s it.
You could also self-host email, but then you need a server that’s always powered on and it adds much complexity, so I suggest to use a managed service instead.
The good thing about using your own domain is that you’re not tied to any service. You could migrate to any other provider (such as ProtonMail, FastMail, etc.) without ever changing your email address on all services.
This is a good idea. I got free domain routing to Gmail through the plagued Google apps system years ago. It’s changed a bunch of times and is now workspaces and requires a monthly fee. I’m grandfathered in through original apps enrollment.
$12? I pay $20 for mine.
$20? I pay $30 for mine.
Wait you guys pay?
You guys have to pay? I get paid to register my domains.
Mine is on automatic renewal.
To a debit card on an account I closed months ago
Check. Mate.
Fate will take it from here lol
let the ghosts fight it out
Wanted to start a blog about my weight loss journey. Lost the weight and never started the blog. Still paying for the domain 7 years later.
Only thing left to do is gain the weight back so I can try again!
Do a retro! Lol
This whole thread is a gem. So many amazing websites. It’s inspired me to make a website and hopefully be a repo for all your websites like the old internet
Is this the sticker of a hobby that you want to be part of?
MY FUCKING WEBSITE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE CAT BAGS FOR SALE WHAT WAS I THINKING?
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
