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.

  • zorro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Here is a somewhat simplified explanation

    When you are registering a domain you are essentially just creating a NS record:

    mydomain.com NS <nameserver ip or name>

    Then when a resolver is asked a question like what is the A record for myserver.com it goes and asks the tld server (.com) what is the NS record for mydomain.com. the tld then responds with the nameserver ip. Then the resolver will query the nameserver directly for the A record of mydomain.com

    In practice there is a ton of caching going on here, but that’s the broad strokes