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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 11 months 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.