/tags/cloudflare/ Recent content in Cloudflare on Ajaya /images/papermod-cover.png /images/papermod-cover.png Hugo en 2024 Ajaya K C. All rights reserved. Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/setting-up-cloudflare-ddns-for-a-home-server/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/setting-up-cloudflare-ddns-for-a-home-server/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Most residential internet connection use a dynamic public IP address. This means that your ISP can change your public IP at any time, making it difficult to access self-hosted services consistently.</p> <p>I already used Cloudflare to manage the DNS for my personal website, so when I needed a Dynamic DNS solution for my homelab, it made sense to use the tools I already had. Rather than paying my ISP for a static public IP or signing up for another DDNS provider, Cloudflare&rsquo;s free API allowed me to keep my home server reachable through a permanent domain name. Whenever my home IP changes, a small script automatically updates the DNS record in Cloudflare.</p>