hi everyone,
I was just about to self-host a Ghost blog but then was warned that my ISP might change my external IP address at any time, so I would need to pay for a static IP address.
Is that true?
(I’d not seen much about that in stuff I’ve looked up so far about self hosting)
As others have already commented, what you need is a Dynamic DNS service, where you register a subdomain, and setup a small program or script on your computer that pings the DDNS server every few minutes, that way you leave that running on the background, and if the program detects that the IP with the request changes, it will update the subdomain to point to it automatically.
You could access the blog from the subdomain of the DDNS directly or if you get your own domain, you can point it to the DDNS.
If you want a recommendation, I have been using DuckDNS for years, and it has been pretty reliable.
There’s also FreeDNS. Their only ask is that you log into the account once every 6 months so they know you’re still using it.