Ok, #selfhosting #diy nerds, it's question time. I'm planning to host a personal site off of an old laptop I have laying around, on my residential internet connection.

I already have a domain name, but since I'm on residential internet, my IP changes ~1/week, so I'll need dynamic DNS. I've never done this before.

I'm thinking https://www.duckdns.org/ + https://ddclient.net/ to map my domain name -> host.

Planning on running this as close to bare-metal as I can (without docker or VM, just straight on the host).

Anyone who's done this and knows more than me have advice or alternatives? Anything else I should be aware of?

@bluewinds CGNAT can be worked around but you’ll probably need another machine somewhere that can forward traffic back to you. That could be a £2/month VM, it literally just needs an IP and the ability for you to connect to it from home.

@jon It looks like I'm ok in that regard; my router's admin panel ("Public IP" and "IP address") both match, and agree with what a public lookup ("what's my IP" web search) shows. That means no CGNAT, right?