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Exposing self-hosted services to internet for self-use only (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by r4nchy@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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I have several selfhosted services that I have been using for months, now I wish to access these while I am not at home. Likes of nextcloud, nocodb, wikijs and other media sharing self-hosted services

I would like to know what precautions should I take so no one knows that such a domain exists.

should I purchase a crazy numbered domain like 671341412312.com ? or should I go for .tk domains.

Would like to get some suggestions from this community on other aspects that I am missing.

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[–] r4nchy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I never really understood the concept behind their free domains, but I never purchased a free/cheap domain after my first experience of getting charged 2-3 times for renewal.

However, are you talking about deletion of your personal data or your website data ?

[–] beje_ro@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Personal data.

They also moved a free domain that I have let expire to the paid ones, so if I wanted to renew I would have to pay... Which is kind of fair... They should also make money from somewhere...

When buying a domain read all the details: renewal fee are mentioned there. For me they were turnoffs in some cases.

I now have a .ovh as a cheap alternative. Iirc they are dirt cheap when you reserve the domain for 3 years...