DigitalOcean DDNS
By Ben Nitkin on
Years ago, when I first bought nitkin.net, I thought it'd be pretty neat to give my home server a domain, say, home.nitkin.net. At the time, IMeanWebHosting handled DNS through CPanel. CPanel doesn't have an API to update DNS records, so DDNS was a long shot. Instead, I wrote up a little script that'd simply track my home's IP address, and figured I could update the records by hand when things changed. (As it turns out, RCN never changed our IP in the 2 years that home.nitkin.net was up for, so the whole DDNS thing was entirely unnecessary. (That's all back here, along with some introductory material.)
But times change, people move, and shared servers are outgrown. I graduated from school and moved out to Colorado (anyone want to hire an electrical engineer who's pretty good at website stuff and Linux?), and switched hosting providers.