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Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions (piefed.social)

submitted 5 hours ago by Tywele@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi,

I want to make some of my services (like Nextcloud, Immich, Komga, Jellyfin and FreshRSS for example) on my home server easier accessible from remote. For that I want to use a VPS where I install Nginx and Wireguard on it and establish a VPN connection between it and my homeserver. So far so good.

My first question: For the services that I don't want to expose for remote access over that setup, can I just keep my Nginx instance that I have running now for these services. For example my budgeting service is available under finance.example.com as long as I'm in the same network as my home server right now. Would that still be possible when I have 2 Nginx instances running (one on the VPS and one on the home server directly) or would I need to configure it differently for that to work?

My second question:
Do I need to install Fail2Ban on my VPS or can I also install it on my homeserver?

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[–] q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I do this currently. I have a Hetzner VPS with Pangolin, giving access to family services like Immich etc, and my own nerdy services I keep locked to my home IP, and if I'm away from home, I tunnel in with Wireguard and hence then the home IP kicks in and they work.

You can issue traefik IP rules with Pangolin as well to limit what IPs can access services.

I have Pangolin and all family services behind Pocket ID with passkey only auth.

The VPS I protect with Hetzner's firewall, so only SSH is allowed from my home IP.

The whole setup is as secure as I can make it. My family would just roll their eyes at any VPN I asked them to use, so it has to be publicly accessible for some things annoyingly.

I also have private services coming direct to my home firewall away from the VPS (for speed efficiency), and for truly public services (websites), I have those tunneled through a Cloudflare tunnel that can handle Google Auth for WordPress login pages etc.

It made me uncomfortable to start with using the VPS, but in time, confidence grows.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Are you able to ssh in with Pangolin? I'm also using Pangolin on a VPS, and though a little while ago (last year somteime?) they demoed a tool for ssh over the pangolin tunnel, I could not get it to work.