I called my ISP today to set up a static IP because my services keep being taken down from my IP changing. I either need a business plan or a 5-10gbps residential plan to do that…
I cannot get on the business plan without a valid Business ID so that’s not an option. And no way in hell I’m paying for those speeds.
Anyone have any alternatives to stop this from happening so often? My public IP seems to change regularly every 2-3 weeks and it’s getting pretty frustrating having to reconfigure things. I only have 2 ISPs in my area and they are both terrible. I assume I’m out of luck, but maybe there’s some tech magic I’m unaware of.
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I use duckdns.org and then make use of CNAME records pointed at the duckdns record for my own domain name/subdomains.
My router (unifi device) keeps duck DNS up to date with my changing IP, but there’s lots of ways to get that done.
You could consider tailnet or similar as well?
Either use a dynamic DNS service, as many others have mentioned and probably easiest, or, assuming you only want yourself to have access to the services, another option is to use something like Tailscale or a WireGuard/FRP instance in a static VPS as the rendezvous point.
I was flat out rejected by my ISP to have a static IP, though I only had it changed once since I started hosting services, so ahatever.
Duck it!
I really love the vibe of freedns.afraid.org
They also give you 6 months in between needing to log in to your account
Depending a bit on OPs needs, this is the quickest & easiest fix I know of.
I run pfsense with dyndns and a short TTL. It updates my DNS provider instantly when the gateway IP changes. For mail I got a cheap vps running pfsense again, tunneling back home via Wireguard and haproxy to link up connections. It is very stable and not as hard to set up as it sounds (and cheap).
https://www.howtogeek.com/866573/what-is-dynamic-dns-ddns-and-how-do-you-set-it-up/
I use ddclient with cloudflare as my domains nameserver.
Never had a static ip, but I’ve never had an issue with it changing because I’ve always used this.
Ok great, this sounds exactly like what I’m looking for. Have seen the term DDNS used before but didn’t know it was for this. Thanks!
If your domain registrar doesn’t do DDNS, and you don’t want to pay extra for one that does, you can get free DNS for life at Hurricane Electric:
All you need to do is finish their little online IPv6 course. TBH the “course” is just setting up your own server properly and proving it.
Have had this setup running for at least 5 years, works flawlessly, and running it in a docker container meant all I had to when moving to a new homeserver was copy the config file
I solved it with a cheap VPS running Caddy as a reverse proxy and a Tailscale connection back to my home server.
I think Tailscale has a service called Tailscale Serve which may work around a frequently changing ip as well. Not sure though as I haven’t looked into it much.
I think the default solution for this is to use a dynamic dns. There are services for that or you can get yourself a domain and configure that as dnydns in your router. That is what I am doing atleast
I use tailscale instead of caring about my public IP or dynamic DNS
100% recommend tailscale. I have it set up so that IPs from three different data centers for work and my home are all routed properly, so I never have to do anything special to connect to anything. It’s like super simple and amazing.
Last time I had to do something like that I used no-ip running on my raspberry pi that’s already running pihole
I pay $5/mo for a VPS and host Nginx Proxy Manager on it
Wouldn’t your bandwidth then be restricted to the bandwidth of VPS? How much bandwidth does a 5$ VPS give?
Vultr allows up to 1TB/mo of bandwidth for $5/mo. Plenty for what I use it for
I have a VPS running nginx and wireguard. I just forward whatever subdomains to my home server over wireguard.
If you have a domain on cloudflare you can make it point to your public ip using something like this https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns
Also some routers, like tp-link, have a ddns feature where they provide you a domain that points to your public ip
If you’re in the US, anyone can set up a business bank account using your own SSN. It’s called sole proprietor. You’d just have to register for an EIN with the IRS. You might have some state procedures too. It’s generally not difficult to do this, especially if having a business ISP account is what you want.
Most ISPs charge insane fees for static IPs (like 4-5x the monthly rate of dynamic IP accounts), so while this is an option, it’s a relatively expensive one.
It’s not worth it unless you’re trying to run something like an email server or a name server. Most things work just fine with dynamic DNS. A few minutes of downtime on a personal site when the IP address changes is not a big deal.
Most ISPs charge insane fees for static IPs
The joy of living in the US I guess. My ISP in Australia charges $5 a month for a static IPV4 address.
The joy of having a crown corp in a province of Canada providing real competition gives me 2 free static IPs.
Nice! Although I do wish everyone would get with IPV6 at some stage. But it seems everyone is OK with the current coping mechanisms in IPV4, so maybe I should pin my hopes on IPV7 or 8.
Not in the US, at work we pay 6 times the rate I pay at home for 1/6 the speed I get at home, everyone hates our office internet speed 😂, at least it’s static do we can host stuff
Thats crazy that you now need to prove you have a business to get that service? Don’t worry, it cost way more anyway and offers very little extra to be worth it at least in the US. I used to use duckdns years ago, and now I just said screw it and purchased a domain name from namecheap for a few bucks for the year and a few more bucks for the ssl cert then use the ddns service through them and link it to a pc on my network using the small app they provide to keep the IP updated. I use the name for all my services. Sometimes the name will cost way more when renewing in which case ill just pick another one because screw them. Ive used a .co and now using a .space.
Prior to me having my static IP I used duckDNS and a cron script on a pi. My ISP offers two free static IPs so I got those now. Sorry to hear you don’t even have one.
