Comment on How do you all handle security and monitoring for your publicly accessible services?
peregus@lemmy.world 4 days agoBeside the fact that you would like to understand if you’ve done everything properly (that’s good, but I can’t help you here), a VPN on a smartphone can be always active. Mine is always on and I’ve never noticed any battery problem. If you prefer something simpler there’s Tailscale.
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If it were only me using the apps, I’d be using a VPN. Over the years, I’ve used OpenVPN, Wireguard, and now Tailscale. In my experience, they work like 99% of the time. That last 1% though is weird connection issues; usually when switching between WiFi and cellular (or vice versa) but sometimes it’s my server or ISP and I havr to turn the VPN off and back on to troubleshoot. My partner will either turn off the VPN and forget to turn it back on or they will forget about the VPN completely and not be able to use their phone. Ideally, I’d like to set something up that doesn’t require any potential troubleshooting on their part so I can avoid hearing “why can’t we just use Google photos?” or “what’s wrong with Google home?” 😓
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 days ago
Yes this is the main reason for me. If you're alone then you don't care that things occasionally don't work. Once you have at least one more person or potentially the extended family it's a whole different story. And then in my opinion a potentially not 100% secured publicly accessible immich instance at home is magnitudes better than having the family just use google photos.
Because like you say, every little hick up from your site is met with "why can't we just use $bigtech instead, it always works".