I recently found out that you can get up to 3 free .eu.cc domain from GNAME, which also claims that you can renew for free when its within 90 days of expiring. So I got one to check it out.
Obviously, the next step is making one of my local machines act as the target destination for any queries to the address, so it becomes accessible for the wider web. I’m not entirely sure, however, what to configure on GNAME (there’s the option to setup A and AAAA records, which I suppose I should just point to my IP, but there’s also CNAME, TXT, NS, SRV and what configurations/programs my local server (rPi 3) needs to have running besides a webserver (Apache2 or Nginx)
My intent is to have it run a single-user fediverse server, possibly friendica, as it seems to have the best support for seeing all sorts of APub posts. If that proves too heavy for my old pi, I’ll try one of the lightweight APub alternatives
I know I’ll also need to do some configurations on my router, so I’d appreciate help on this, too.
In your scenario, I would prefer to tunnel to the outside, as it could be risky to just open a port on your router and open a port on your computer. In this case, pointing the IP to a vps that your PC tunnels to or putting the record in cloudflares DNS, that way no automatic port searcher will try to nuke your network. There is dynamic DNS too.
There is cloudflare and other options too.
Edit: I do this with cloudflare, but privacy is very much not given with them.
An unauthenticated tunnel is still an ingress path same as an open port, just with more steps.
As I don’t have any VPS, it sounds like I’ll have to rely with cloudflare’s tunnel then? That or register with one listed here? https://github.com/savyasathe/free-vps
There are oracle’s free VPS too.