custom domain
hi, so i'm planning to host a minecraft server locally and asking people to put in 192.17whatever just seems outdated. i've already got a name in mind that hasn't been sniped by one of those domain ransom companies, is there any real way to host the thingie on my computer without paying someone else to host some random website i don't need?
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Requested by agentlouisiana#0
192 is your internal ip, but yes
i was just using it as a placeholder number
i get that it's just the local host thing but still
a domain doesnt need a website
yeah domains is where i just completely lose the idea
so yeah, buy it and make sure you can join on your public ip (from another network)
buy it?
and then just use a A record pointing to your public ip
once you purchase a domain, just create an A record that points to ur local ip
oh i don't need to purchase it it doesn't exist yet
i was hoping i could just like run it from my computer
domain still needs to be bought
fuck me
i can add an A record for free on one of my domains if u want
nah nah it's cool i just thought it'd be cool to say "hey just join the server at liamgaming.com"
because i'm narcissistic* and also because it'd be free
*not actually narcissistic
yeah, unfortunately you'll have to purchase whatever domain. But once you have a domain you can add A records for free
what would be the best place to buy an ip?
i think namecheap is great
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I typically buy my domains here, then change the name servers to cloudflare and let cloudflare handle all of the DNS traffic
the name servers?
cloudflare?
its the fancy thing how domains work
i know cloudflare but aren't they big?
can you tell i have zero experience with this
yeah which is why you'd want to use them lmao
also by "buy" its technically rent, you usually pay a yearly fee
allinlehead.com is cheaper and funny to me at least
$5.98 a year
for the first year then it's £7.92 a year
which honestly isn't that bad i'm just not liquid enough to buy a website rn
thanks for letting me know how this shit works tho
you dont need to have any website at all
well yeah but owning a website would be cool
i took a few html courses i'm basically the da vinci of websites
didnt know i was speaking to einstein himself
what's domain privacy? do i need it?
it says "free forever" but i don't wanna go end up racking some charge
ye keep it on
it makes it so people cant look up ur domain and know u bought it
since all the info is public
also keep in mind, that domains don't hide ur ip, just forward it
i'll live
thanks for the help tho
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for example all this info is public. Without domain privacy it could show you bought it. Instead it'll just show nothing and or namecheap. Namecheap acts as the middleman.
jesus christ
it can also show your real name etc
yup
WAIT can i get emails from this domain?
if you have an email server yes
oh my god can i tell people "oh yeah just email me at [email protected] because some dickhead took [email protected]"
cloudflare offers free routing, so u can receive emails from the domain, but not send. You'll need an email server if you want to send emails
sounds like fun
for example i got a domain
quartzdev.gg, and setup a free custom address ([email protected]) and it auto routes to my email [email protected]
All of its free on cloudflare. I just pay the yearly fee on namecheap just for the domain, nothing else
IT'S FREE?? you eman i only gotta pay ten bucks a year for this shit?
cloudflare is op af
what's in it for cloudflare? your data??
if u make an actual website with real traffic since you already use cloudflare you'll upgrade to their paid tier and pay them millions
you can also host free websites, u just link a github repo and it'll auto make the website and host it completely for free, (you're limited, but for simple websites for minecraft servers you'll need to need to leave the free tier)
Vercel does the same with website hosting
can i make it so i have both a website and a minecraft server?
i mean i really do want a website but the added bonus of being able to tell people to just join me at balls.com helps
yeah u can
u can setup something like
mc.balls.com -> minecraft server
https://balls.com/ -> your website hosted on vercel or cloudflare for free
ohhhh right
so how does something like 2b2t.org work? the same ip takes you to both the store and the server
sorry if the questions are getting annoying i'm normally not THIS out of my depth
so u know how a minecraft server uses a port? like 25565
yeah
they use seperate ports?
websites are just another server, they use port 80 (for http) and 443 (for https)
your browser just hides the port number in the address bar
so...
- balls.com:443 -> web server
- balls.com:25565 -> mc server
this isn't as hard as i'd imagined
but without the website in hand i think this is as far as i'm going rn
A records are a lot simpler to setup tho
so you can just do mc.balls.com
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This should work