Says “Please type in the domain into the input field below that will be used for Nextcloud in order to create a new AIO instance.”
I dont wanna unnecessarily spend money
I’m not very familiar with NextCloud but you can use something like duckDns to direct traffic to your ip for free. Still an actual domain is a bit nicer if you want to share the URL.
Plenty of free hostname providers. I use Dynu
It can be an ip address, if you have a static ip. If you’re planning to host this on the open internet and have a dynamic ip (home internet is most likely for this), or static and don’t want to pay for a top level domain you can use a service like noip.com for a free address like “test.ddns.net”
You can also change this after the initial setup in Nextcloud’s config.php as well as as additional domain names/ip addresses that can reach the server.
and just to get this right, if i want to acess it outside of my lan, i cant use my ip? i dont think my ip changes, has been the same as long as i remember
Just don’t mix up public and private IP. You cant use private IP outside of your LAN if you want to access it when you on the go.
You can purchase one, or as a first step you can use duckdns.org which is entirely free! Then when you think you want your own domain name you could just switch :-)
Can’t it just work locally with a locally assigned IP?
Yes it can