Static IP's from ISPs (FrogFoot)

Stillie

Stillie

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Good day,

By any chance does anyone have a Frogfoot line and an ISP that provides Static IP's without having to get a business package?

Cool Idea's only offer static IP's on business packages.

Note: I know you can get a service like DynDns but i would rather use a static IP
 
What is the need for the static?
 
PBCool said:
What is the need for the static?
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I want to set up a NextCloud instance which will allow me to get away from Google's monopoly and i want to setup an A record as i would like to use my domain name to access its services.

There are a few other services i would like to be able to use the static IP.

(Note i have no intention of starting a hosting service or anything like that :ROFL: ) - The "Server" i have is an old HP i5 computer lol
 
You can get a static IP from Axxess for R39pm. Home account and no special router
 
Yea I think I'm going to have to change ISPs don't really want to
 
Stillie said:
I want to set up a NextCloud instance which will allow me to get away from Google's monopoly and i want to setup an A record as i would like to use my domain name to access its services.

There are a few other services i would like to be able to use the static IP.

(Note i have no intention of starting a hosting service or anything like that :ROFL: ) - The "Server" i have is an old HP i5 computer lol
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So why not use a dyndns account and create a CNAME record with your pointing to the dyndns address?
 
Stillie said:
I want to set up a NextCloud instance which will allow me to get away from Google's monopoly and i want to setup an A record as i would like to use my domain name to access its services.

There are a few other services i would like to be able to use the static IP.

(Note i have no intention of starting a hosting service or anything like that :ROFL: ) - The "Server" i have is an old HP i5 computer lol
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I use Cloudns.net.

It has a function that allows you to use a cron to update your IP at x increments.

I have a family ftp network linked to a domain that I use that way. Set it on a raspberry pi zero with a cron that runs every 30 minutes so the longest the connection will be down due to wrong IP if there is a connection loss and a new IP is assigned 29 minutes :)
 
We do.

Cape Connect FrogFoot Fibre Cover

Cape Connect provides fibre optic and wireless internet connections and VOIP solutions in the Cape Town area. Our offices are in Somerset West. Our service area includes Stellenbosch and Constantia
www.cape-connect.com www.cape-connect.com

All our products are supplied with a free static IPv4 address with PTR record set as you want it.
 
My parents and uncle are on FF with Afrihost. Once your routers mac is registered to their DHCP it seems to never change IP unless you change router. Parents IP hasn't changed in 9 months and uncles not in a year (using duckdns - shows no changes in this amount of time).

It's not an official static but pretty much if you keep the same router.
 
There are uses for Static IP's but when hosting Nextcloud only a static IP is kind of pointless. Even for most game servers is kind of pointless. Has a static IP with a previous ISP, was also under the impression it will change my life, after a while it got boring and I just forgot about it.
 
PBCool said:
So why not use a dyndns account and create a CNAME record with your pointing to the dyndns address?
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Dude,

I did not know this was a thing - i have managed to get this up and running without the static ip using the CNAME - this has changed my life! Thank you for this!

So this thread can die, i dont need a static ip anymore. lol
 
Dyndns can also work for creating site to site VPN or if you have a VPN server
 
Just be very careful when opening up web ports on your home network and keep all those apps updated!
 
accessing Resources on Azure such as DBs etc are also a pain without a static IP, I have to constantly update to allow my local machine access through the firewall.
 
gboy said:
accessing Resources on Azure such as DBs etc are also a pain without a static IP, I have to constantly update to allow my local machine access through the firewall.
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This is very true. You can normally get away with dyndns for exposing services but when it comes to whitelisting of IP’s it is a problem. I setup a free tier AWS EC2 instance with an elastic IP and installed OpenVPN. Route all traffic via that VPN when I need to access IP restricted resources. What is useful is I can connect from my phone as well if I need to access something when I’m out.
 
Gambit said:
This is very true. You can normally get away with dyndns for exposing services but when it comes to whitelisting of IP’s it is a problem. I setup a free tier AWS EC2 instance with an elastic IP and installed OpenVPN. Route all traffic via that VPN when I need to access IP restricted resources. What is useful is I can connect from my phone as well if I need to access something when I’m out.
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the other option is to do something like was suggested by an "Azure Expert" to me, but it sounds like an idiotic solution

Most likely your isp gives you an address within a range, so get your ip and give azure something like [First 3 parts of your ip.1/24]. Eg. 172.138.16.1/24.

With a lot of us Working from Home, we should really have the option of a static IP, for Like R50 a month.

the Problem is if it was My Servers, I could get away with Ideas, but they are Clients Servers and they restrict the policy / have t set it up, and there is no way they will let an IP range through on a critical system.
 
gboy said:
the other option is to do something like was suggested by an "Azure Expert" to me, but it sounds like an idiotic solution

Most likely your isp gives you an address within a range, so get your ip and give azure something like [First 3 parts of your ip.1/24]. Eg. 172.138.16.1/24.

With a lot of us Working from Home, we should really have the option of a static IP, for Like R50 a month.

the Problem is if it was My Servers, I could get away with Ideas, but they are Clients Servers and they restrict the policy / have t set it up, and there is no way they will let an IP range through on a critical system.
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Axxess = Static IP = R39pm
 
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