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.
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.
IanTwenty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.