For most use cases you can host everything on I2P.
- You can create unlimited domains for free
- Its censorship resistant There are some caveats though:
- The network is rather slow (but not too slow in my opinion)
- You need to configure your router or you device to access the I2P net
This one will be a bit trickier because of federation. Maybe it is even impossible. But for git hosting, website hosting, email, your cloud, various chats software or torrents it should just work.
The performance is absolutely abysmal and the error-rates high. For personal use, just have a normal VPN.
Have you tried it after the recent updates? They added ddos protection so now the network isn’t nearly as vulnerable to attacks. Before they were getting hit over and over by some large actor who seemed to want to break i2p routing.
One caveat though, you need to be careful of the Indian government coming after you. I don’t live in India bit I hear they are banning and or attacking services that allow for circumvention of censorship and India seems to be hostel to people seeking privacy.
- Check out afraid.org and learn how to set up DDNS.
- I’ve been using afraid.org for a long time with no issues. I don’t know IPQuick.
- Real domains can be REALLY cheap if you don’t need something fancy. Just go to https://tld-list.com/ and sort for “cheapest renewal”.
Will I be able to host Email (I have server).
Btw I a 11th class student from Middle Class Indian family.So cheap should be equal to free 😅😆
Not an expert, but AFAICT email self hosting is not considered a good idea, as the maintenance of an email server requires a lot of work. An alternative could be using Cloudflare for the DNS and set up email routing (for free).
afraid.org +1
I recommend duckdns instead, which is more well known in the DIY community. It’s also a dyndns like other told you to use.
Will DDNS will be sufficient to host a fediverse server (I mean will other sites federate with it)
I don’t know, maybe ?
But I recommand strongly to have your own domain name.
As long as you do nothing illegal, when you own a domain name, you have legal recourse to keep it. It’s not the case for an email service mail like gmail, which can ban you for no reason tomorrow, and you have no recourse to get back your email address back.
I don’t want to be rude but if you can’t afford a domain you probably shouldn’t be hosting a fediverse server.
Honestly do you even need to expose services to the internet? Internet exposure is dangerous and is not necessary for 95% of things. You can use a mesh VPN like netbird or Tailscale if you need remote access.
This isn’t me trying to offend you I just think it would be wise to reduce the scope of you projects.
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Assuming that you mean that you are using the domain name to point to services which are at a residential, dynamic IP address, you will need to set up a Dynamic DNS service.
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If a product is free, you’re the product.
While I normally agree on #2, it doesnt really apply to Tailscale. Tailscale isn’t completely free, they have a free tier to generate business but it’s limited to 3 users per tailnet. Also its cryptographically impossible for them to snoop on your traffic.
Just pay the few dollars per year and have a stable and reputable domain.
Certainly for fediverse i’d want a stable domain, these are usually hard to migrate.
