Florian Hoss

This post walks through the evolution of my menu scraper project, from its humble beginnings as a quick lunchtime tool to a robust, open-source platform with a modern stack.

I will showcase my current setup and talk about securely linking them together.

Since my first steps into self-hosting 2018, I have been using Nextcloud as my primary solution for file storage and documents. However, over time, I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with its performance and complexity.

Anyone managing production container environments knows the problem: images update quickly, security fixes are released constantly, and manually keeping up is tedious and error-prone.

In this guide, we will walk you through setting up your own Dynamic DNS (DynDNS) solution using an automation tool and a DNS provider’s API.