You don't actually need DDNS. If your provider has an API you can update your addresses using the API. https://kb.porkbun.com/article/190-getting-started-with-the-porkbun-api

I use porkbun and ddclient (https://ddclient.net/). Not sure if that helps you or not but there it is

Pro tip: If you use Porkbun, don’t leave your domain’s authoritative DNS with Porkbun nameservers.

Over the year or so I had my stuff configured this way, on at least one occasion (that I know about.. I was still setting up my observability stack during this year), the servers were flapping hard for over a day, causing my records to magically vanish from existence intermittently.

I tried contacting them every way I could, hell I even descended into the quagmire of Twitter and created an account so I could tweet at them.. and got silence.

Pretty disappointing. I ended up moving all my DNS to AWS Route 53 after a few hours of pulling out my hair. They did eventually respond to my email like a day later, after I’d already moved everything over.

But idk maybe I’m wrong expecting an indie domain registrar to have super high availability on their nameservers.. oh well

Why not switch your registration to cloudflare. They are awesome as long as you want to use their DNS.

Don't get me started 😂

I worked for a company that had over 300 clients with sites with them. They don't give a fuck. We literally moved over 300 accounts to another provider over their shit support/sales teams. Domain, hosting everything.

They. Don't. Care.

They took down services by trying things that aren't possible on their platform (DMARC for subdomain). Totally unacceptable. How tf do they not know that they can't accommodate my request without damaging my infrastructure?! Other providers can do DMARC for subdimains?!? WTF?!?!

If they're your provider and you're in trouble, contact Newfold Digital support first. That's their parents company. They tend to route you better than Bluehost does. Shit Bluehost chat support has been broken for like 3 months lmao.

Yeah that's exactly what i do. I have an A record that points to my house and i update it every 4 hours from a script on my router. Been really happy with cloudflare, they have a weird restriction about using your own nameservers, but as long as you are happy with theirs then they seem to be great.

I’ve been using AWS R53 for this for ages and it works well. Not specifically recommending AWS but using dynamic updates rather than a DDNS service (or running your own name server which I’ve also done).