G+_Jason Perry Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 It seams that DynDNS has just doubled their price. Any suggestions? I don't mind paying if it means it isn't a headache. Well I didn't mind the $25/year price tag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Dang. $40 a year is a bit stiff. I'm good until Dec 2018. Does your IP change often? Mine changes almost never. Easy enough to update A records manually. (I saw a while back a Python script to auto-update a go-daddy DNS zone file) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Akira Yamanita Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 At those prices, you'd might as well host at easyDNS and get domain name registration included. They even have an API for updating the DNS records. I can't speak to their current practices, but they used to be a fairly no frills, no upsell type of service when I used them. If you don't care about the registration and just want a lower price, No-IP is $19.95/yr. for their most basic paid plan. The web interface for managing hosts is one of the worst I've seen though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 I gave up Dyn a few years ago and have been using afraid.org If you have a domain already, you don't have to share subdomains to pay your keep. Just buy a stealth flag to keep your domain private.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Namecheap has dynamic DNS support and .com is comparable to everyone else ~$9 per year. Not quite as simple as DynDNS in my opinion, but still works great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 So, I just had a chat with a Namecheap CSR, and I'm astonished that you don't even have to be a paying customer of any kind to use their dynamic dns. It's totally free, you just have to own the domain name you want to use. I'll be transferring mine to them very soon, and I'll be glad to give them my money for domain registration. I didn't ask if there was a limit to the number of subdomains, but most wouldn't have a problem even if it was like 5 subs or something. Ben Reese do you have any insight into that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Oh, for those keeping score: namecheap still provides the same service, for free, that Dyn used to give for free but now charges $40/yr for. Yeah, they don't have any free (sub)domains, but I imagine most only use those for a short while until they just gotta have their own domain name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Perry Posted October 26, 2015 Author Share Posted October 26, 2015 Eddie Foy, and if you are in Canada the price is up to 60. We get boned up here all the time. That pack of capacitors that Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ showed on KH for $13 costs $55 north of the border. Ben Reese, I am going to have to look into name cheep, especially after Jason Marsh's discovery. I was thinking of going with the $20 package from no ip; but, if I don't have to confirm every 30 days, or some other catch, free is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Jason Marsh?, yes. You're limited to 150 but I think I read somewhere that you could contact them if you need more. I'm pretty good with those 150 for now ? I'm still trying to figure out how to setup a cheap mail server, but for now I'm using their free email forwarding system too. I've setup a few single-purpose addresses, like ben.docker points to my Gmail with a "+docker" tag in the middle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Jason Perry Oh, I totally forgot about that hassle from back in the free days of Dyn, but NameCheap's customer support people seem more than happy to answer simple questions over chat. Like before with Dyn, I'd imagine that you wouldn't have to confirm every 30 days if you were using them as your domain retailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Ben Reese You can use your domain for customized gmail. I don't know what the cost is, but it'd probably be less taxing than trying to get around your ISP blocking inbound mailserver traffic. EDIT: Ahh, I see google apps for work is $5 per user, per month. IDK if I value a name@mydomain address that much, but you might think differently. EDIT 2: I wonder if AWS's free tier could be used to host a mailserver... Looks like Amazon SES is an outgoing mail service. Maybe RYO on an EC2 instance of ubuntu server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Jason Marsh?, I didn't realize there was an AWS free tier... I've still got some credit with Digital Ocean and 5-10/mo could be worth it. There's actually an option in Gmail to let you send email from another account - like an alias. This used to use Gmails SMTP server for outgoing mail, but now they want you to provide your own SMTP server. So, yeah... I like Namecheap. I had a free .me domain with then as part of the Github Student Developer Pack (https://education.github.com/pack), but just let that one expire because I wanted a .com for a family domain instead. I use the dynamic DNS service for one sub domain and have setup a few others for Digital Ocean VPSs that I've played with. I'll start a new thread to continue the mail server discussion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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