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Hosting external services (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by WASTECH@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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As I start to host more and more services on my home server, my family and friends are interested in using some of the services I host as well. Up to now, all of my services have been internal-only, and my wife and I just use Tailscale to access everything. Getting others set up with tailscale isn’t an issue, but I can only have up to 4 other users before I have to pay to add more, and I have more than 4 people I would like to have access to some of the things I host.

Right now I’m using cloudflare tunnels to make some services available externally. I’m behind CGNAT, so I’m forced to use something like tunnels or similar. I’ve always read that if you are going to open things up externally to use a reverse proxy (which I use internally), but does this still apply with cloudflare tunnels? What else should I be looking at to make sure I have everything secured properly?

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[–] the_q@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago (14 children)

With being behind a CGNAT tunnels is your only option.

[–] linux_supremacist@lemmy.nazibeater.fyi 7 points 22 hours ago (13 children)

https://pangolin.net/

What about this? Pangolin is probably fine if they rent a vps.

[–] WASTECH@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

I would like to avoid paying for a VPS. I probably should have clarified in my post too that I am specifically looking for advise on securing public facing services. While I certainly could make everyone use a tailscale-like service, at this point I think securing an external service would be easier. Especially since most of these people would not be tech savvy and I don’t particularly want to play tech support for their VPN.

[–] linux_supremacist@lemmy.nazibeater.fyi 2 points 18 hours ago

ngrok allows up to 1 gigabyte out. it is not a good deal compared to cloudflare tunnels. the vps with pangolin is the best option on the table if I'm going to be honest

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