QUOTE(Kadaj @ Aug 7 2024, 06:50 PM)
How much it cost you for the setup monthly?
Will it cheaper than VPN $5 per month and save all the hassle?
Yeah like kwss said, it's free, I have my own home server on a thin client that hosts a few services such as Home Assistant, Adguard Home, some docker containers and stuff. Just pay for the electricity. I can also use the VPS that hosts my static website but for the time being I prefer to use my home server.
I also have a VPN already but I don't connect to VPN all the time because some sites/games need me to turn off VPN. But the primary reason I set up Adguard Home is to block ads and stuff. The DNS stuff is an after thought and just happened to integrate quite well.
QUOTE(kwss @ Aug 7 2024, 11:06 PM)
I think since he already has a domain, he must also have something already running. So the cost is free. It is just additional path configuration in nginx and whatever software behind the scene.
Even if you do not have a domain, do not have any cloud instance, you can still create a CloudFront Distribution and Amazon will assign you something like dxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net.
1TB egress per month is free. USD $0.02/GB for origin request. Let's say you use 5GB of DNS request traffic per month, it is only USD $0.10 per month. I never heard of any home user with 5GB per month of DNS request. DNS response is free and covered under 1TB quota.
I think the free 10 millions request per month is more than enough for DNS requests.
About this, do you have any links to read more about setting up DNS server (?) on AWS CloudFront? This seems interesting to play with. I only thought of setting up EC2 instance but didn't know CloudFront can do it. Can't wrap my head about it.
This post has been edited by zellleonhart: Aug 7 2024, 11:50 PM