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Nextcloud is fine without Anubis since everything is behind a login.
Yes, you need a reverse proxy. Also you need a public IP which not all ISPs offer. If you have one, you have to forward port 443 to the reverse proxy in your router config. That means someone who tries to connect to your router on port 443 will be forwarded to the reserve proxy who checks which domain was looked for and forwards to the actual Nextcloud.
You'll need a domain pointing to your public IP. That IP may change, so you need an automation that updates the DNS records (known as dyndns). When you're selecting a registrar, look for one that has dyndns support (you can use different nameservers but that's unnecessary extra steps).
Could you help me learn something conceptually about a reverse proxy?
My understanding is that Virtual Private Servers (vps) charge for bandwidth after you exceed a free cap.
If I set up nextcloud behind a reverse proxy, so that I'm not exposing my residential IP address to the internet, does that mean that when I upload a 500 gigabyte file, let's say, I will incur 500 gigabytes of usage on the virtual private server?
Or is there some system where once you log in to your server, it is smart enough to make a direct connection from the client to the residential IP and bypass the reverse proxy?
In your example it would use that much and no it can't be shortcut, that'd be a big security bug and is not intended.
The reverse proxy is just a piece of software and can be on the same machine as the actual service, but yeah, if you don't have a public IP at home, you'll need someone like you described and it will need the traffic.
I think there's different software that does hole punching and actually gets you a peer to peer connection but there's more vpn territory where the vps is just used to find a way between the peers.
For most use cases, the free traffic is usually enough though.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, that helps a lot
Are there any good guides that you would recommend to a beginner on how to properly set it up?
Check out Nginx Proxy Manager. it automates the process of setting up a reverse proxy server for you. You will need your own domain name to make it work.
Most likely yes, but I don't know any I can recommend, sorry