Their instructions for "installing" duckdns need a little tweaking though, so I have added a post on how to do that It's literally a few seconds work to set up a sub domain to redirect to your GoFlex Home and more importantly you don't need to install a client to update your IP address as they provide instructions on how to do that as a cron task. has some recommendations on free dynamic DNS providers and I really like. Sign up for a third-party proxy service like
If you liked Seagateshare remote access to your GoFlex Home web server, now that Seagate has shut it down you can still get remote access with a name by setting up a third party proxy service. That's very convenient especially if your IP address changes frequently. Seagateshare just saved you from having to know, or remember your IP address, for example 134.204.236.40 and instead you just have to remember your GoFlex Home name. As long as you know your WAN IP address you could always connect remotely and that hasn't changed.
Remote access to your GoFlex Home does not depend on Seagateshare. Now that Seagateshare has shut down what are the options?
Nhựt Anh Lê alerted me that Seagate announced they will stop the remote server from February 1st 2019 ( changed to December 31st 2018) and the server at is no longer available.