Selfhosted
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil.
-
No spam.
-
Posts are to be related to self-hosting.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or readme if you're providing a link.
-
Submission headline should match the article title.
-
No trolling.
-
Promotion posts require active participation, with an account that is at least 30 days old. F/LOSS without a paywall has exceptions, with requirements. See the rules link for details. Tags [CBH] or [AIP] are required, see the links in Rule 8 for details.
-
AI-related discussions and AI-involved promotional posts have additional requirements for tagging, as noted in Rule 7 and the AI & Promotional Post Expanded Rules post, and find example disclosures here.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
view the rest of the comments
The problem you're describing — reconfiguring things when the IP changes — has a standard fix that costs nothing: a domain with a short-TTL A record updated automatically. Two paths, pick by how your services are consumed:
If the audience is you/family: Tailscale or plain WireGuard to a $4-5 VPS, and the IP churn stops mattering entirely — you connect to the VPS/tailnet name, which never changes, and home-IP changes become invisible. This also sidesteps CGNAT if your ISP is doing that.
If services must be publicly reachable: dynamic DNS. With a Cloudflare-hosted domain, a cron (
curlthe API with a scoped token, or ddclient) updating the A record every 5 minutes with a 60-120s TTL means a change propagates within minutes. What you must not do is hand-configure the IP anywhere else — certificate SANs, firewall rules, client configs — everything references the hostname only. Once everything is hostname-based, an IP change is a non-event you'll never notice.Two honest caveats: if your ISP changes IP while a long-lived connection is up you'll get one brief blip mid-transfer — nothing reconfiguration can prevent anyway. And if your goal is email delivery from home, a dynamic residential IP is a deliverability problem no DDNS fixes; mail wants to go out via a VPS relay regardless.