If I get a raspbery pi to host my own site do I need a domain?
Not technically, whatever web server you run would be accessible by your public IP address but I would not recommend self-hosting with a Raspberry Pi, or at all.
You would need to open up a port on your router and forward that to your Raspberry Pi which can open up some security vulnerabilities that may affect any device on your local network. On top of that it’s pretty common for ISPs to cycle public IP addresses so you’d face regular, unpredictable downtime.
Glitch (and several other similar platforms) handle all that for you for little to no cost.
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Raspberry Pi is best for hosting discord bots, but not for websites.
but can I still use a custom domain for it
Yes you would just have to use an A record.
who Owns example.com
IANA I think. It is reserved so people can use it in examples.
@idodev IANA owns that domain.
who is that @anon69241012
Its essentially the company that regulates domains and IPs.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
According to Wikipedia
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System, media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and Internet numbers.
@anon69241012 check your DM
@idodev I will check
@TheBigC I don’t see anything
Is lavacode your alt @TheBigC lol
Ok, I think we are getting a bit off-topic. You guys can always use DMs 
NO I am not an alt
As in “Hey! Kidz is being released in a few minutes! Check it out” Not like graphic design etc.
wut do u mean?
As in just text, no websites needed.
I still don’t get it???
Maybe this will help?
what???
Wait a second. It’s soon
WHAT IS SOON. lets move to DM!
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OK. Look at Kidz discussion
okay sure @anon69241012
Thanks. I hope soon almost everybody is on Kidz!
Hi there,
I do website hosting with my raspberry pi for MHIRA. www.mhiraapp.org.uk
It works suprisingly well and my IP is hidden by Cloudflare so people can’t see my location
Eddie
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Won’t your ip change because of your isp?
Not if you set it to a static IP instead of dynamic in your DHCP IP settings in your router configuration
I mean your ISP will change your public ip
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That pretty cool, I pinged your site and did get a cloudflare IP.