Sure, but neither are self hosted media servers, and if you can afford/run the one you can afford/run the other. Domain names are cheap as dirt and aren’t all that complicated for anyone running a home server.
I got a free subdomain from freedns.afraid.org and they have a script you can just add to your crontab to periodically check your IP and to update their DNS listing if your ISP changes it
I certainly agree that it adds an element of complexity. I had never dealt with anything like this before and had to learn it, but it really is a pretty easy thing to setup.
I’m not trying to sound like a dick but having your own domain name isnt something most people have
Dynamic free domain names are everywhere, and work. Nothing really to setup either.
Sure, but neither are self hosted media servers, and if you can afford/run the one you can afford/run the other. Domain names are cheap as dirt and aren’t all that complicated for anyone running a home server.
trivially easy. cheap
Well perhaps I’ll have to look into it
I got a free subdomain from freedns.afraid.org and they have a script you can just add to your crontab to periodically check your IP and to update their DNS listing if your ISP changes it
Freedns is great but they won’t let you setup https certificates on the free plan, I found that out the hard way.
They do, actually. I use Jellyfin with https certs on a free ddns from desec.io
You can easily request a free domain through services like duckdns.org. Might not be the prettiest domain name, but for these purposes it’s fine.
I certainly agree that it adds an element of complexity. I had never dealt with anything like this before and had to learn it, but it really is a pretty easy thing to setup.
It’s not terribly expensive or hard to do.
Setting up proper zraid and dealing with Linux to get the server up was much harder than using nginx and buying a $4/yr domain.
Hmm OK, yeah Linux I’m super comfortable with, networking oddly scares me, but maybe I’ll give it a go