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PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned (loudwhisper.me)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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GoDaddy really lived up to its bad reputation and recently changed their API rules. The rules are simple: either you own 10 (or 50) domains, you pay $20/month, or you don't get the API. I personally didn't get any communication, and this broke my DDNS setup. I am clearly not the only one judging from what I found online. A company this big gating an API behind such a steep price... So I will repeat what many people said before me (being right): don't. use. GoDaddy.

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't use DNS like that. Use a VPS and route traffic to a isolated network at home if need be

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

?? Your solution to dynamic dns is to run all the traffic through a static IP vps? Are you paying for this VPS, or are you saying you trust the host more than you trust cloudflare, because they give you a free VPS?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I pay for a VPS and a static IP for the VPS. Way safer and less fragile

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Safer is a matter of opinion. You’re moving your trust from one company to another, that doesn’t necessarily equate more safety. How do you trust the safety of companies?

As for less fragile, that is patently untrue. You have all the same failure points as previous, but now must manage the update schedule of another server, and have the added reliance on a third party host. You’ve increased fragility if anything.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

I've had very high uptime for years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's definitely a nice solution, but I have not had good luck with free VPS providers keeping the lights on. It would likely cost money on the order of $5 to $10 per month, so it is a different class of solution.