Hi everyone, first time posting since the Reddit went nuclear on sanity. With the advent of Lemmy, I finally got around to booting my home-server back up and stood up my own instance :)
How do you all self host stuff? I’ve been happily running Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Plex, etc locally, but none of that has been internet facing. As I’m getting back into this I want to share stuff with my friends and family and getting them all to use a VPN seems like a stretch.
Wondering if the general consensus is that it’s better to put shit on a VPS, on your own HW locally (with firewalls, safeguards, etc) or some combo of the two?
Cloud is best for reliability, but a good option that sacrifices that reliability but keeps some security benefits is to put a reverse proxy on a VPS and connect just your servers by a VPN.
Gotcha that’s fair. Everything I’ve previously had internet facing has always been behind a reverse proxy with Let’s Encrypt, but it’s been years since I did that. I’ll look into the VPS reverse proxy option, thanks!
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Cloud is best for reliability, but a good option that sacrifices that reliability but keeps some security benefits is to put a reverse proxy on a VPS and connect just your servers by a VPN.
Gotcha that’s fair. Everything I’ve previously had internet facing has always been behind a reverse proxy with Let’s Encrypt, but it’s been years since I did that. I’ll look into the VPS reverse proxy option, thanks!