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I'm putting this under security because i'd like to keep this a private server for family:
that said, I'm wondering if you fine people can help me with the best way to set up a web server in my house to host the files on my external hard drives for family members in other cities/countries while, again, keeping it private and secure over the internet.
I'm looking into ngrok for url handling, but am not sure exactly if this is the best way to go.
Can anyone save me time and possible heartache and failure and provide me (and possibly others) with a walk-through of which software to use. Would love to do something like free, but may have to get a paid unique domain from, say, ngrok, to make it easier for family members to connect up.
Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi... you're my only hope!
(Score: 4, Informative) by Pino P on Friday January 19 2018, @10:40PM
If you use dynamic DNS, you must make sure that the dynamic DNS provider that you choose is on Mozilla's Public Suffix List [publicsuffix.org] for two reasons.
One reason is that the CA's rate limit [letsencrypt.org] uses the PSL to tell what domain names are registrable by end users. For dynamic DNS providers on the PSL, Let's Encrypt issues up to 20 certificates per customer per week. But if a dynamic DNS provider is not on the PSL, Let's Encrypt issues only 20 certificates per week across the entire provider. This makes it highly likely that 20 other customers of the same dynamic DNS provider got their certificates before you.
In addition, if a dynamic DNS provider is not on the PSL, other customers' websites can forge cookies for your subdomain.