Domain names seem expensive in comparison. The cheaper VPS that I use for playing around is just $10.29/year.
I thought I’d get a domain name from RackNerd as well, but they’re $24.95/year + I think $4.99 for privacy.

I’ve checked Namecheap, and that seemed great, until I found that renewal prices are often through the roof.

I don’t really care about it being nice. For now, mostly I just want to use the VPS as image host for Lemmy, since Imgur and Catbox are both a bit problematic.
And without a domain name, the images only show as link posts in the default LemmyUI (though it seems to work elsewhere). Plus it makes migration impossible.

    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      +1 for Porkbun. They even offer $2/yr <6–9 digit>.xyz domains if you just want a domain for basically free and don’t care about having a nice and pretty one. 01384629.xyz or whatever for $2/yr to give their service a try is well worth it imo. I have one of these as well as a “real” domain I like that’s like $20 or $25/yr. I have no complaints with Porkbun.

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    I use cloudflare for both my domains. $17 or so each.

    Honestly you can spend as little as a couple bucks if you dont care about a name. I like cloudflare but almost any registrar is fine as long as you pay for the domain.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      From a deal on racknerdtracker.com (so RackNerd as the name suggests).
      But their panel is a bit limited. If you want a custom OS that isn’t provided, you have to open a ticket with them to get an ISO mounted. You can also boot into recovery environment, but that is outdated minimal installation of Debian 9 without working APT. I was still able to use it to install Arch Linux from bootstrap image though. I just had to decompress it on my PC, create a temporary partition for it and scp it over.

      And I am again mentioning Arch. It comes naturally.

  • Spacenut@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    I bought a class 1.111B domain from the .xyz registrar: 6 to 9 digits followed by .xyz, so you can use your phone number. They sell them for $1/year, and $1/year for whois privacy. So I paid $20 to have my domain for the next decade :)

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    51·
    7 days ago

    Cloudflare. They sell and renew at cost ($12 iirc)

    I hear Porkbun does/did as well but I haven’t looked in a long time.

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I use Cloudflare as registrar, and I am currently paying for 2 .com and 1 .co domains, US$100 each for 10 years.

  • witness_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Formerly Google domains, now owned by squarespace. It costs $13 a year for a .rocks domain.

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    8 days ago

    Cloudflare has been excellent for me since I switched away from (puke) GoDaddy years ago. They don’t try to upsell you bullshit like most of the other places, either. I have three domains with them.

    I do not use any other Cloudflare services. There are no additional costs or services required (beyond the domain fees) to use them as your registrar.

  • French75@slrpnk.netEnglish
    19·
    8 days ago

    I’ve got a few domains. I use Porkbun as registrar. They’re awesome, and the domains were pretty cheap. Under $10 a year each.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    17·
    6 days ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    CF CloudFlare
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAT Network Address Translation
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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