I would like to have the choice. Using a service is good to check out the game.

If one gets more serious about the game, self hosting would be cool.

So I think you can start with using a service but should keep in mind to add the option for self hosting in the long term.

I’d put the bitcoin/lightning bits on another box/behind a service. 

rijndael

in my past I developed other games and bought too early the domains. And after some years passed and the game did not worked out had to drop the domains again. And another thing is I am so early in the developing this game that I do not even have a name for it :D

para

What are your thoughts on using DynDNS over buying a traditional domain?

tomlaies

Daily discussion thread

saloon

Today I linked the raspberrypi (with a dynamic IP) via DynDNS to a static domain. Next I will connect the game prototype to a Mongo database.

A question for the devs out there: 

Would you rather host Bicoind and Lnd yourself on the same mashine or use a service to process the lighning transactions into and out of the game? 