I get a 206 address that matches my server's public IP. My laptop is on the same network as the portfolio, but I did test external connections using a mobile hotspot, which resulted in me successfully connecting to the IP address with telnet, but not being able to connect to the domain name. On my phone's browser, while on data, I was able to access my portfolio website using the public IP address as the URL, rather than the domain name.
Yeah the DNS' public IP matches my server's. The access logs have some connections from the SSL validation and from when I successfully connected using the public IP address. The error logs are empty.
I did it this way because I didn't think a randomly generated domain name from cloudflare would be professional enough. I might have to go with that if I can't get this working though.
I get ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT when trying to connect to it. I don't get any error logs on the server itself. I also got an ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED earlier.
I think they plan on making it ship with windows by default at some point, so perhaps it'll be in future versions of Windows Server and you won't have to add it.
If I ever need to switch to the root user, I usually type su, but I saw someone use sudo su - in a video, which I thought was pretty strange but maybe the video creator knew something I didn't, or it wasn't possible to simply su a few years ago.
The external IP is properly bringing me to the portfolio, its just the subdomain that now seems to be blocked.