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How do I access my services from outside? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by leaf_skeleton@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey all,

I'm setting up a homeserver and trying to figure out the best way to access it remotely. I've been looking at different solutions, but I’m a little stuck.

I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP when I’m also trying to use a commercial VPN for privacy / to combat services fingerprinting me based on my IP.

I'm currently considering a reverse proxy setup with an authentication provider like authentik or authelia, but as far as I understand, that wouldn't work well with accessing services through an app on my mobile device (like for jellyfin music for example.) I did think about just opening up the ports and using a DDNS with a reverse proxy, but is'nt that like a big security risk?

Keep in mind I am no network admin, but I don’t have anything against learning if someone can point me in the right direction.

Also I heard some people say that on proxmox you should use unprivileged containers instead of vms for your services, does that hold up?

Any recommendations for tools or approaches?

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[–] flork@lemy.lol 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

NGINX Proxy Manager and DuckDNS.

Get DuckDNS set up first.

Then go to DuckDNS.org and register a domain.

Then go into NGINX proxy manager.

It's pretty straightforward, click "add proxy host", then type the domain from duckdns (I like to do a different subdomain for each service, ie: calibre.mydomain.duckdns.org, homeassistant.mydomain.duckdns.org, etc.) and point it at your container with the service you want to access remotely.

You'll want to enable let's encrypt. But other than that the defaults should be fine.

[–] user314_lemmus_v3s@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I've been using this setup for years, then one day just installed caddyserver. No certbot, no boilerplate nginx config etc.

I was still using nginx for internal services but then replaced it with "fabio lb" because it works well with consul.

I was so happy do discover it that I want to share it with everyone ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Thank you for your attention on this matter.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

CGNAT sends its regards.

(Although if you have IPv6 access you might get around this... But even in 2026 you will face issues going only this way).

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am behind GCNAT, and my ISP doesn't do IPv6. I have a free tier VPS from Oracle that uses wireguard to tunnel packets to my home server.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, if only Oracle could take at least one of my multiple credit/debit cards.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

That's a bummer. It's great for this stuff, don't need processing power or memory, and I don't really care if it got nuked for some reason