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LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Why would you want to expose it to the web in the first place? In a homelab scenario, you’re the only one who needs access, so putting it behind a VPN comes at zero convenience or monetary cost.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 day ago
My homelab stuff I like to be able to access from places that take all my free time (like work), making things accessible is a bit of a requirement for me.
LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s fair, but I still can’t see how a VPN connection makes your stuff less accessible.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 day ago
Just by making it so I can’t access from a system I don’t control. Like say I need to retrieve a document from my house, but I’m in a SCIF, or a waiting room, or anywhere else I wouldn’t have my personal device, it’s super useful to just connect to something like Nextcloud and pull it down.
LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I didn’t say you should put your Nextcloud instance behind a VPN. Mine is public too.
I’m saying you should put your administrative access behind a VPN. SSH, reverse proxy admin panel, you name it. You need not do administrative stuff from work.
funkajunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So setup a VPN
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 day ago
Hmm… Where I work setting up a VPN on my work machine would not only break my workflow, it would probably cost me my job. Plus I’m not a big fan of giving computers I don’t control access to the internals of my network. Reverse proxies were invented for a reason, no reason not to use one.
I think you might be drastically misunderstanding what a reverse proxy does.
Reverse proxy: Gives EVERY computer a direct connection to your network if you make it public, which it certainly sounds like you mean.
VPN: gives only you access to your internals.