I’m just a novice at self hosting and I see a lot of talk about the risks of exposing stuff to the world. Here’s my setup:
-Rpi4 hosting Overseerr
-Desktop computer hosting Nginx and some Cloudflare DDNS update containers
Cloudflare directs request.domain.com to my home IP address. Nginx forces HTTPS and directs the request to the Pi.
Is there any risk in this setup or are there more steps I can take to secure it?
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Since you’re using cloudflare already you could utilize their cloudflare tunnel feature, that way you don’t need DDNS or any open ports, and your home IP will be hidden.
I would rather just making a wireguard vpn and having control of my data, but privacy might not be his concern.
For public access you would need a VPS somewhere to act as an ingress point, so that might be more than OP wants to deal with.