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Help an idiot protect his homelab and few services exposed to the internet. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by neo2478@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi all,

I am running proxmox on a mini PC with a handful of services in my stack. I also run NPM in an LXC to reach my services through my domain name (service.domain.tld).

For my Arr related stuff, I use Usenet, and everything runs through a VPN.

I have three services which are public. Jellyfin, Seer and BookOrbit (for syncing Kobos).

Currently I have no security besides the built in login managers from the services, but I am considering setting up Authentik. I know I'm asking for trouble with my current set up.

I have elderly and extremely tech averse family members who live in two countries other than me, so tech support can be a challenge.

A lot of people suggest running a VPN, but it would be difficult for my family and I don't know how to make it work syncing our Kobos with BookOrbit.

I've also seen some posts about tunneling to a VPS somewhere and users can connect to the VPS without a VPN.

I feel this question has been asked several times, and I tried searching here and on the internet in general, but my knowledge is not good enough to use the right terms and to get something that is idiot proof.

Any suggestions on best practices or links to guides you recommend would be much appreciated. Also, what EU based affordable VPS would you recommend?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ask yourself: is there any service that really, really needs to be public? Or is this only about availability for you or a very limited group (family, friends), which could be implemented via a VPN solution?

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's just for family, but elderly family in two different very far away countries, across multiple devices.

[–] Guiorgy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

WireGuard is stateless, so running it "on" 24/7 is cheap, set it up once for them and leave it on, ideally they wouldn't notice a thing.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

See that you get a solid VPN bridge, much better than trying to fix a ton of different services if things go awry.