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

  • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    9 hours ago

    Step 1: buy a couple extra years and set an annual reminder in your calendar. If you are happy with it, you will be together a long time and don’t want it to expire on you while on a vacation or something.

    • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 hours ago

      Step 2: find domains of people/companies you don’t like and set a calendar reminder for when their domain expires so you can be petty and make fun of them with a parody site if they forget to renew.

      … Or is that just me?