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Would you say, it is worth it to pay for a VPS for Pangolin? (piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by DeckPacker@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey,
I am currently paying 5,50€ a month for a Hetzner VPS to selfhost a Pangolin instance. I've come to quite rely on Pangolin, because I have to access all of my selfhosted services from my home server from remote. That's because I have to keep my server at home (while I live in a student dorm, which doesn't allow using their network to host servers). Also their authentication and private resources are really good for security and exposing ssh and other stuff from my home server to authenticated clients.

Anyway, I like this setup, because it is fully FOSS and I have 100% control of what my VPS does. It is really expensive though and I am trying to reduce my monthly expenses right now.

I saw online, that you can get a free managed instance of Pangolin on their website (https://pangolin.net/pricing Cloud). It would meet all my needs, but I wouldn't be 1. Fully FOSS (because they probably run the business licensed version of their software) and 2. I wouldn't have full control.

These services work by managing all the https certs themselves, so the have to decrypt all their traffic and send it through the tunnel to your server. Theoretically, Pangolin could log all my traffic to and from my server, which would be a huge privacy risk. But probably they're not, because that would be really impractical...? I don't know.

Do you think, it would be worth the privacy tradeoff for the cost savings?

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If FOSS is a concern you could look into NetBird. They also have a hosted alternative but as far as I know the entire stack is FOSS.

It’d still be a matter of trusting a private company though.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

Tbh I couldn't set up Netbird in a way that I'm happy with. I'd like to use it with an external Caddy and Authelia but the setup is so terribly documented and has various bugs I have given up.

[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Actually, they seem to have a tls-passtough mode, which would allow me to handle encryption myself

[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I will maybe look into it, thanks. Allthough, at that point I could also probably trust Pangolin aswell, their stuff is also mostly FOSS