Help using shared hosting server as a VPN

[RTX 3090]

Hi, basically I am experimenting with my own hosting server, but have a dynamic IP. Currently I pay for name cheap hosting, so is it possible for me to use the name cheap shared hosting as a VPN for my own server, that way I have a static IP. Thanks in advance

 

btw I have a cPanel access, but it has SSH management included

[Master Disaster]

33 minutes ago, RTX 3090 said:

Hi, basically I am experimenting with my own hosting server, but have a dynamic IP. Currently I pay for name cheap hosting, so is it possible for me to use the name cheap shared hosting as a VPN for my own server, that way I have a static IP. Thanks in advance

 

btw I have a cPanel access, but it has SSH management included

Nope, the solution you are looking for is called DDNS, you can get it for free from many places.

 

Its works by you either installing an app on the server or preferably directly through a router (though thats not possible on rented hosting). It resolves your IP to an FQDN (for example rtx3090.noip.com) and as your external IP changes the software detects it and updates the DNS record on the DDNS providers side to point to the new IP.

 

All you ever need to do is point to the domain name and it will work seamlessly.

[RTX 3090]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

you can get it for free from many places.

Thanks for info, do you have any specific one you can

 

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

All you ever need to do is point to the domain name and it will work seamlessly.

Should I buy a separate domain name for the server for the DNS and mail stuff

[Master Disaster]

32 minutes ago, RTX 3090 said:

Thanks for info, do you have any specific one you can

 

Should I buy a separate domain name for the server for the DNS and mail stuff

Nah, you get a domain name with the DDNS, using Apache or NGINX you can then create virtual hosts to do sub domains for all your services.

 

Be careful about what you leave internet facing though, only open a service up to the internet if you really need external access otherwise keep them on your internal network.

[RTX 3090]

7 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Be careful about what you leave internet facing though, only open a service up to the internet if you really need external access otherwise keep them on your internal network.

I have a relatively low bandwidth network (20down 10up) so is there a posibility someone could DDOS my network down as that is my main WiFi

[Electronics Wizardy]

45 minutes ago, RTX 3090 said:

I have a relatively low bandwidth network (20down 10up) so is there a posibility someone could DDOS my network down as that is my main WiFi

Yup someone could do that, probably unlikely as a DLS attack isn't free so the attacker would want something out of it.

[RTX 3090]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yup someone could do that, probably unlikely as a DLS attack isn't free so the attacker would want something out of it.

Thanks for info. Is there some sort of DDOS protection I can use. I have heard cloudflare is good at that stuff

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, RTX 3090 said:

Thanks for info. Is there some sort of DDOS protection I can use. I have heard cloudflare is good at that stuff

Cloudflare is good, but its a paid service unless your doing web traffic only. 

 

 

Id just host from a VPS if you can.

[RTX 3090]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id just host from a VPS if you can.

I don't really want to pay £10 a month for a 1 core CPU and 2GB RAM when I can easily do that my self, which is the reason I'm trying to do it my self. I also wan't easy and cheap upgrade-ability. The cost for a 4-8 core VPS is absolutely ridiculous atm.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, RTX 3090 said:

I don't really want to pay £10 a month for a 1 core CPU and 2GB RAM when I can easily do that my self, which is the reason I'm trying to do it my self. I also wan't easy and cheap upgrade-ability. The cost for a 4-8 core VPS is absolutely ridiculous atm.

Your paying for the stable internet, high quality power, higher security. You can't really get that in a home hosted system.

[RTX 3090]

9 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Your paying for the stable internet, high quality power, higher security. You can't really get that in a home hosted system.

I don't really need lot's of bandwidth, I will get a maximum of 1000 visitors a day, and if I need more bandwidth later, i can just pay my ISP an extra £4 a month to bump it up to 100mbps. I am currently using namecheap shared hoasting, but I want something with a bit faster CPU and no limits (namecheap limits the INODE, IONOS limits INODES and total storage, racloud limits mySQL databases etc). So with my own server the only limit is the hw i put inside it which I can easily upgrade

[RTX 3090]

VPS standalone price :

 

cPanel price on top of that :

On top of that I have to pay them to restart the server if it crashes