Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Hi everyone!

I’m looking into self-hosting, and I currently have dynamic DNS set up to point to my home IP.

My question: is it worth getting a dedicated IP through a VPN?

I’m pretty technically savvy, but when it comes to networking I lack practical experience. My thought is that pointing my domain to a dedicated IP and routing that traffic to my home IP would be safer - especially if I only allow traffic on certain ports from that IP. Just curious if that idea holds up in practice, or if it’s not worth the effort.

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@[email protected] It would be better to have the server on a separated VLAN
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  Yeah, thats definitely something I need to look into setting up.

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