Duckdns.org down again, can I use dyndns.org with ssl?

[gurbina93]

Time to graduate to a better setup. I highly recommend Cloudflare for many many reasons. Best of all it’s the best DNS provider, with the best features and it’s all FREE, you’ll just need your own domain name or point your current domain provide name servers to Cloudflare.
Here a couple of post I made about it:

Expose Home Assistant For Google IPs only- IPV4 only

Or an easier, more accurate and safer way is to also use Cloudflare as your DNS provider and proxy. They do publish the range of IPs for their servers and they’ll proxy your connection so nobody will know your private IP when resolving your domain. Then you can just block all connections not coming from those IPs on your router. Benefit of this is that you’ll have their security as well like DDos, Rate Limiting, WAF, Access, User Agent Blocking, IP rules (block, challenge, bad browser), pag…

SSL with additional domain

I’m just gonna copy paste it here, it should give you a good idea on what to do: Well, it’s quite straightforward once you setup the Cloudflare component which I guess you already did. As for LetsEncrypt replacement, I am using NGINX Proxy Manager. You install it, do port forwarding for 80 and 443 from your router to this add-on ports as per the instructions and start creating your “Proxy Hosts” entries i.e. for homeassistant: Proxy Host: homeassistant.yourdomain.com Destination: To y…

Should cost you about 8USD for a .com domain for a couple of years.