The connection between your Pangolin service (hosted outside your network) and your LAN is through a VPN. Essentially you’re creating a proxy that you can point your domain address at which isn’t your house’s IP address. Plus then everything inside your network is still secure behind your VPN.
So you connect to Pangolin, and Pangolin routes the traffic to your network.
Yes, correct. You can always locally host it as there are other benefits like unifying user credentials for all your hosted services. But its primary design is to be hosted externally.
currently I host everything locally, but I don’t like the fact that anyone visiting my domain can easily find my address.
I’m in the process of determining on if I set up Pangolin myself or not.
Another huge benefit is higher availability.
(ex. If my internet goes down at home, I won’t know until I try to connect, but if I have an external service and it’s monitoring that connection, it can inform me when it loses connection)
Price is certainly something to consider when weighing its value for your setup
ChogChog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The connection between your Pangolin service (hosted outside your network) and your LAN is through a VPN. Essentially you’re creating a proxy that you can point your domain address at which isn’t your house’s IP address. Plus then everything inside your network is still secure behind your VPN.
So you connect to Pangolin, and Pangolin routes the traffic to your network.
syaochan@feddit.it 2 months ago
If I understood correctly I should either get a VPS to host Pangolin or use their cloud. This would increase the costs right?
ChogChog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, correct. You can always locally host it as there are other benefits like unifying user credentials for all your hosted services. But its primary design is to be hosted externally.
currently I host everything locally, but I don’t like the fact that anyone visiting my domain can easily find my address.
I’m in the process of determining on if I set up Pangolin myself or not. Another huge benefit is higher availability. (ex. If my internet goes down at home, I won’t know until I try to connect, but if I have an external service and it’s monitoring that connection, it can inform me when it loses connection)
Price is certainly something to consider when weighing its value for your setup