Comment on Securing a 'public' service for family
CausticFlames@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I’d say you’re good. I trust NPM’s SSL forwarding so I’d say spin up Peertube and put NPM in front of it to manage your certs and such, and as long as both are up to date it’ll be fine.
Realistically though, you could still use a VPN and have it be pretty easy for your family members IF you have access to their router console and IF said router supports network wide wireguard or openVPN connections. Having both networks tied in to eachother that way makes it so that nobody ever has to use a VPN client to connect, but still only devices from their network (or yours) will be able to connect.
I had to look up NPM as in my head it’s NodeJS Package Manager but TIL there’s also Nginx Proxy Manager!
I like your VPN solution for a small group and actually tying it to their home network/router could make sense and further restrict attacks I have to deal with. However in my case I could be dealing with 30+ households of users and as others say I am bound to get people on mobiles complaining they can’t access it. However noted for future projects.
JASN_DE@feddit.org 1 week ago
Realistically this plan dies the moment someone takes their phone outside of the WiFi range. It’s fine in theory, but fails miserably in non-techie real life.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
“Where’s the router you configured for me? Oh the Cox guy said I should just use their router for $9.99/mo so I donated it to Goodwill”