Hi everyone,

a couple of friends and I have a Jellyfin server running which is exposed to the internet via a reverse-proxy and https by using a free dynDNS provider.

The setup is working fine besides the dynDNS provider. We constantly face connection issues, making the dynamic DNS functionality very unreliable.

So I started looking into possible solutions and one particular would be to buy an own domain which would only cost a few bucks each month. With this I could keep the current setup and would just need to change the domain (and possibly the SSL certificate). I found a provider over which I could buy (rent?) a domain and which also provides dynDNS functionality. But I am not too sure if I understood this correctly:

  • if I have an own domain, why would I need the additional dynDNS functionality? I would guess that I would just continue updating your server’s IP address to the domain name like we are doing now
  • can the provider over which I rent the domain with servers in my country actually see what our traffic is? Especially since we are streaming our movies etc.
  • is there a better way of obtaining and setting up your own domain also in terms of privacy and reliability than with a bigger company offering such services?

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

Edit: An important fact I forgot to add in my main post is that during these issues, the general server connection should be fine since it is located at a friends house and his internet connection is unaffected (e.g. we could still talk in Discord normally and he had no internet issues whatsoever)

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    If you have a static IP where you host your jellyfin service you shouldn’t need your dydns anymore.

    a domain provider doesn’t know what you are doing. It knows you want to access jellyfin.your.domain but has no clue what you are watching or the specific URLs you are going to.
    Think of it like a library reference card, the library knows you want Encyclopaedia Britannica volume 12, but they don’t know what you are actually looking up.

    I have a domain with porkbun and dont have issues. When my reverse proxy needs a new certificate I do nothing because Traefik uses the porkbun API to do the Let’s Encrypt DNS validation.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Even if you have a dynamic IP it’s trivial to set up automatic DNS updates with a good provider that has an API to do it.