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Recommended Domain & DDNS Providers?
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I've had good experiences with Namecheap for domains. Some of their support people are also in Ukraine, so if you're of a mind to support them, giving them your business will do that at least a little.
One word of advice--it can be smart to have the domain name with one provider, and the hosting with a different one. That way if your hosting situation goes bad for whatever reason, you still have control of your domain and can point it at a new host as quickly as you can buy space and they can provision it (with time for DNS to propagate of course).
Basically, don't put all your eggs in one basket. When I did webhost support, I saw WAY too many small business owners get into pickles because they had hosting AND domain with the same provider, and when something went wrong with that provider, it was just such a huge PITA to get control of the domain.
No recs for hosting, I don't currently have a webpage up (just email) and my knowledge is way out of date, from like 2008 when I worked for a webhost as support.
If OP is thinking of DDNS, he might be looking at hosting from home. If you're using a VPS, the IP generally doesn't change so DDNS isn't really required.
I agree with your Namecheap recommendation though. I use it to access my docker containers that's running on a NAS box at home. My router runs the DDNS client and periodically notifies Namecheap whenever my home IP changes.