@homegrown@social.growyourown.services
Post #3134352
2026-06-05 19:46 UTC
If you want to set up several different online services but can't afford different domain names for them all, you can just use subdomains of one domain instead. They are limitless and cost nothing extra.
e.g. You could have a Mastodon server at social.example.com, a PeerTube server at video.example.com, a Nextcloud server at cloud.example.com etc.
Each subdomain can use totally different software and be on totally different hosting providers.
#SelfHosting
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@ryan@m29.us 2026-06-05 22:15
@homegrown@social.growyourown.services Around 2001, a few friends and I banded together and rented a 1U colocation box to share. The domain I chose was, boringly, colobox.com. https://colobox.com/ itself has been serving the same stub page, unchanged, for the last 25 years, because everything else is on subdomains.