Hi guys!

I’m considering moving away from duckdns, as it’s becoming increasingly unreliable. I’d like to check some other free dynamic DNS alternatives (I’m open to suggestions!).

My idea would be to have the server run under two different domains, but both directing to the same services. Is this possible? What shoudl I change in nginx in order to answer to two different domains/names?

Thanks!

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    1 month ago

    I switched from duckdns about a year ago as it failed to resolve the addresses for my jellyfin server. I ended up buying a domain from cloudflare for 3 years for about $4, and I self-hosted ddns updater to automatically grab the dynamic ip, and set it to a subdomain.

    As for your nginx config, I’d imagine you could make 2 separate config files in sites-enabled that are nearly identical, but listen for different domains. Something like this:

    
    #config file 1 
    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example_a.com;
    
        location / {
            return 301 http://example_c.com$request_uri;
    	#or use an ip instead of example_c.com
        }
    }
    
    #config file 2
    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example_b.com;
    
        location / {
            return 301 http://example_c.com$request_uri;
    	#or use an ip instead of example_c.com
        }
    }
    
    
    #Or use "proxy_pass http://example_c.com;" in the location tag instead of "return 301..." if you want to reverse proxy the traffic
    
    
    • @[email protected]OP
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      21 month ago

      Thanks. I’m seriously considering also a paid domain, so it’s good to hear from your experience. I might go try some other free provider first though.

      • @cheesemoo
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        31 month ago

        I switched to a paid domain in the last few months and regret not doing it sooner - it just works, and it’s nice knowing that I won’t have to reconfigure all my stuff to point at a different domain name again in the future. Price was maybe $15/year on porkbun - very much worth it imo.

        I’ve also used freedns in the past and had no complaints about them, except that I think wildcard subdomains are limited to paid supporters (very cheap though) and at the time my SWAG docker image maybe didn’t support them? It’s been a while. The service was great though. Never had problems like I did with duckdns.