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I finally bought a domain! Now what (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 day ago by philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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

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.
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
I'd like to let family access my media server, are there any considerations I need to make?
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

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's good advice for beginners. If you're inside a VPN you get a little more breathing room to figure out how to properly provision and wire up your services without having do deal with all the security and scaling concerns that can come from public hosting. Also, new hosters are really likely to set up their reverse proxy and not patch it and leave it open to known vulnerabilities that get exploited months or years down the line... not that that ever happened to me...

Anyway, I think inside a VPN is a good way to get your feet wet. Setting up a public website is fun but I wouldn't advise it as a first step.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For a personal website, just point the main domain or one subdomain at something like github pages or another static site hoster and start forwarding email to their regular email. Zero maintenance to start and cost. Grow from there.