Comment on Tutorial series for self hosting beginners?
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am relatively sophisticated on LAN/local services (been running Raspberry Pi since 2018 or so), I was never able to setup a reverse proxy to get a true self-hosted system (i.e. remote access); got roadblocked by nginx and setting up letsencrypt on my domain.
In general, true remote access if IMO exponentially more difficult and demand.
For anyone starting out with self-hosting, I would strongly recommend LAN/local services and you can relatively easily multiple very useful and powerful services (SMB/NAS, Jellyfin, Pi-hole, Qbittorrent-Nox).
I would suggest looking into DietPi, it’s IMO the best RaspberryPi/SBC distribution there is you want things to just work and not bug you. Very helpful developers and community too.
derpgon@programming.dev 1 day ago
You basically never want to expose your local network to the internet. The most secure and simple way are either Tailscale or WireGuard combined with a VPS that is exposed to the internet and takes all the beating.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah, the primary reason people end up exposing things to the internet is because of friends and family. I can call my mother-in-law and walk her through setting up Plex, but that only works because Plex is exposed to the internet. If I had to walk her through setting up Tailscale on her living room TV before she could connect, it would be a non-starter.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This what I was trying to setup when I first started (with Nginx, domain and free tier version of Google Cloud). I wasn’t able to get it all running with Nginx and HTTPS.
LycaKnight@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I use Tailscale and Nginx Proxy Manager. Very easy to geht it running. I use DNS Challenge with my Domain Provider. The Domain points to my Tailscale IP. So I don’t need to open anything.
derpgon@programming.dev 1 day ago
I use a similar setup with Traefik instead of Nginx PM, and Headscale instead of Tailscale. It is almost the same kind of setup.