This project (was) temporarily paused

[willnode]

To run this project one has to preserve a whole IP address to run this service so it's kinda expensive and it seems that interest in this project is none.

Still, this is a fun project for me, I thought myself how to create an automatic SSL signing with LE. Definitely useful for my next project.

[DaGaMs]

ha, shame! I was actually just trying to use this ;-)

[willnode]

I hate to say this but spending for nothing is something I couldn't afford 😂 probably 10 stars in this project and I will reconsider to get this project back up and running.

[DaGaMs]

😅 Fair enough - I admit that I ended up resorting to https://freedirector.io/

[DaGaMs]

Not as good as your solution though - no https:// redirects. So you see, there might be a market for your system!

[willnode]

Whoa, ok. That's give me a little bit of reason 😅 I'll try to repurpose one of my existing VM for this project.

[willnode]

This service is now back online with some improvements! 🔥

[martin-braun]

@willnode Here is your 10th star, I actually use your service. Add GitHub Sponsoring (with custom amount) and I might sponsor a tiny bit to compensate a little cost (and I would sponsor more if I use a bunch of redirects in the future). Also why needing a static IP? If using the CNAME approach it should not matter if the IP changes or should it?

@DaGaMs This is proprietary stuff, but here you have honest open-source work. I'd suggest to sponsor this project and use it instead of relying on big closed source software of any company. You cannot validate their code, they probably track you, perhaps they sell your data and they are often targeted by hackers to cause data breaches, because nobody can audit their code, except a handful of people within the cooperation.

[willnode]

Thanks for your kind words (and star) @martin-braun.

I have a separate static IP just in case people are still stuck with traditional hosting domains, I don't want them forced to use Cloudflare just to use this service at an apex domain (unless they also want IPv6). But another static IP is free anyway so I don't bother with it currently.

This service serves hundreds of domains already but I don't struggle currently as this service is part of my operation at @domcloud and it generates revenue (to cover hosting costs only, because it's also in development, lol). But anyway someone already donating a year's worth of this service hosting costs so I'm forever grateful for that.

[billalive]

Thank you for starting this project up again! I know this issue is closed, but I just wanted to let you know how incredibly easy this was for me to set up. I couldn't believe it... it really Just Worked. Well done!! 🏆

[WhiteBlackGoose]

Thank you, amazing!