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I recently got a Synology NAS and I am trying to setup Emby. I wanna host a media server however, I wanna be able to access the emby location from anywhere and let say my mom access it. Just I wanna keep it secure. Should I use cloudflare?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

To reduce that, there are a few things you can do.

Option 1:

  • Only open port 443 and run everything through a reverse proxy like traefik. You can open other ports ad you need them (game server for example)

  • Run crowdsec to get rid of 95% of bad actors

  • Whitelist IPs that you know traffic will be coming from and drop everything else

Option 2:

  • wireguard VPN and just VPN into your home network to access your server

Option 3:

  • Run tailscale

  • run fail2ban