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What can you do with your own domain name in regards to self hosting? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Own_Career_7388@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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One perk that someone told me about is that you can use your domain to get around not having a static IP (because the DNS will compensate).

If I were to get a Cloudflare domain name then what would be some other pros and cons?

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[-] Own_Career_7388@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I miss the days when you could just do johnsmith+walmart@gmail.com when signing up on a website, but now everyone either outright rejects it as invalid or parses it out.

It was useful because you could see who was selling your email address, but that exposed too many companies and was losing them $$$ so they patched it :(

[-] da_frakkinpope@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

See, I keep reading that. Idk for sure if it's because I use a custom domain, but no company has rejected me yet. Closest I got was a, "Is this a real email address?" "Yes" "That's so cool! How is your email mydumbcompany@problematicpenguin.com?"

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