In my daily life, besides working as a Software developer, I'm always interested into launching new personal/side-projects. I launch simple webs, tools, try new technologies or make utilities for myself.

In order to make that developments accesible anywhere I usually go and use No-IP services, which allows a single user to register three subdomains which can be dynamically updated if we don't have a static IP (DDNS). This has been specially useful for me when looking to expose an app deployed in my local network (home), normally on a Raspberry Pi.

This was until last week, that I discovered the FreeDNS service when accessing a mooo.com subdomain. The project has been there since 2001 up to this day... it's advertisement free and based on open-source software.

Currently they have a pool of 61,949 domains some of them working for more than 10 years...

They offer a premium account which offers more than 50 subdomains and "extra configuration". But a standard account allows you to create 5 subdomains in shared domains which I find more than useful for publishing my projects.

If you want, you can read the FAQs of the service in order to view all possibilities.

To contribute to this project I shared publicly the developer.li domain (which I was not using...), initially focused for developers, so anybody can create their own subdomain for their side projects, or its own place!

For the main page of my shared domain I made this simple Angular page, which allows you to check for available subdomains. All with the NES.CSS style which I fell in love.

Check it out!

Do you know any similar alternatives? What do you think about FreeDNS?

Happy coding!