Using HAProxy, Acme certs, subdomains with dynamic dns help please

Networking & Firewalls
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I have a dynamic ip address, but want to setup some services like nextcloud etc. I have several domains that I can test with, however after reading several posts online and watching numerous videos, I still haven’t found a solution that will allow me to pickup my dynamic ip address with a subdomain i.e. nextcloud.mydomain.com

I have managed to get cloudflare (for example) to pickup the dynamic ip address, however from what I can see, I cannot use subdomains on their free platform.

I have been following this video How To Setup ACME, Let's Encrypt, and HAProxy HTTPS offloading on pfsense - YouTube for reference but again my downfall is no static ip address so I don’t see that using digital ocean as my dns will solve this issue either.

If anyone has any solutions that would be great!!
Thank you

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Your registrar is where you will point to your DNS provider. For example if you have noip for a registrar and cloudflare as your DNS provider. As for a dynamic dns you can utilize pfsense to update your cloudflare (if that is what you are using) or I am sure you can Google your DNS providers method to update your IP address.

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I’ve managed to get access to namecheaps api. They do both dynamic dns and domain registrar so everything in one place which has made things easier :slightly_smiling_face: