Hi everyone

Thanks for all the advice on buying a domain. Its a big week for me. Getting on grapheneos, buying a domain, and I also recently started self hosting my contacts and calendar. I love this way of life.

My original plan was to one of the xyz 1.1111b domains for $1 a year but most of the feedback I got said just go with cloudflare. Its a lot more money than I had planned but all the security features are baked in and I feel that’s worth the extra money.

Here are my questions. I use the latest version of truenas community

  1. How do I connect my domain to my server apps? I’ve got a series of apps I’d love to he able to access without tailscale and solely use the domain.
  2. I have heard the term DNS a million times but don’t really understand it. What do.I need to know about DNS to keep security up and stay protected
  3. I’d like to let family access my media server, are there any considerations I need to make?
  4. How can I use one domain to access multiple services on my server? Do I need to pay extra for subdomains?

Thank you for any advice

  • valkyre09@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Cloudflare tunnels is a great way to expose services on your network to the web.

    You run a program in your server, it makes a tunnel, then you configure it on the website to visit the internal link in your network, eg

    If you’re hosting a web server at home, you could have something like:

    www.mydomain.net > http://192.168.1.55:8080/

    You can also have cloudflare protect access to that website with email verification, google / Microsoft accounts etc.

    It’s a lot to learn, but it’s very handy once you get the hang of it.

    Here’s a YouTube video on the basics: https://youtu.be/Q5dG8g4-Sx0?is=J7KvNZoyjsEq33fO