Hi, I know this topic has been talked about 70 thousand times but I’m still not sure.

I have home server on an intel NUC behind the ISP router. On it I have the standard arr apps, jellyfin, pi-hole etc etc. I would like to access them through a domain rather than an IP. So I set them up in docker, behind traefik, behind authelia and behind cloudflare. I am the only one that uses it.

Now, I’m worried about the security of it all. I’ve been searching here and there and I’ve read about cf tunnels, wireguard server, vps, vlan, OPNsense etc etc. I still don’t know what would be the most secure. Should I just stay with what I have?

EDIT: I’m not behind CGNAT

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why so complicated? Why not just SSH? Put it on some random port, make it public key login only, and you’re done.

    • Eris@l.os33.coEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is what I do and I’ve wondered why people always shill for tailscale or cloud flare tunneling, seems like way too much extra bs for the same thing

    • ExploratrixLunae@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ve beeb looking into a similar setup and I didn’t know SSH could do this kind of tunneling. Thanks for the tip! I’m going to consider using it.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m not sure what you mean by tunnel, but SSH allows a “secure shell” aka an encrypted connection to a shell on a device. Tailscale, Headscale, and others are VPNs, which means they allow making it seem as if your computer is in the same (private) network as that of the server - but in order to have a shell on the server, you’ll still need SSH.

        To my knowledge, adding a VPN to open a secure shell on the server is unnecessary and has no security benefits.