TL;DR – free dynamic DNS with your own domain and cloudflare

May 14, 2020 by andre

Don’t bother reading the whole article – I’ll sum it up for you in a few simple steps:Enable port forwarding on your home router. You need to route port 80 outside to port 80 on your local server inside (if you want to use https -> Port 443)Buy a domain – search for cheap offers, but keep in mind that the domain register service needs to offer the option to add any DNS-server for name resolving your domain.Register at cloudflare, add your domain, chose the free plan and make cloudflare scan your domain DNS entries.Go back to your name register...

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Host your own web app on a Raspberry Pi Part 2

May 14, 2020 by andre

Make it public firs step: NAT Port Forwarding So, you are probably wondering how this amazing web application can be visible from the world wide web. Well, no need to wonder no more.First you need to enable a NAT port forwarding in your router to redirect traffic arriving on your public IP address to your RaspberryPi on your local network. If you need more information regarding public IP addresses and NAT-Firewall you can get some background information on this link.To actually enable a Port Forwarding on your specific home router you need to go to your router administration interface via a web...

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Host your own web app on a Raspberry Pi - Part 1

May 8, 2020 by andre

Host your own web app created with Laravel on a RaspberryPi incl. your own Domain, SSL certificate and free dynamic DNS (almost) for free.Over the years and especially since the introduction of the latest RaspberryPi generation – v4 - the SoC became more and more suitable as a PC or Server replacement. So powerful even, that the introduction website with tens of millions of visitors was hosted on a cluster of 18 Raspberry Pi 4 (Source)This may seem like an overkill for your private website but should give you some feeling of the potentials of this small piece of hardware.Hosting your...

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