Hey y’all!
I am after the colelctive expertise of this fantastic community. My family and i are moving overseas for a year for a pacific adventure, which leaves my hosting setup in a bind. We will be renting out our house and i will need to move all of my ‘servers’ (read laptop and NAS) out.
All of my services are in docker.
My main services that i MUST keep are:
- Immich
- 600Gb or so
- very important as we will be taking a HEAP of photos.
- paperless
- vaultwarden
- custom location tracking service
- radicale
I would also like to make it so that all of my media is still available, but i may need to get a set up at a friends house. I have jellyfin plus a bunch of *arr’s
I was thinking a mix between at a mates house and a cloud server.
any thoughts?
ptz@dubvee.org 9 months ago
Are any of your services public facing? If so, you might want to make the VPS your reverse proxy and VPN server and have your stack at your friend’s house connect to the cloud server - reverse proxy in the VPS would connect back over the VPN to the equipment at your friend’s house.
This would prevent your friend from having to open ports in their router and from exposing their IP to the world (beyond their normal traffic, that is).
Plus, it would allow you to VPN-in to manage as well as have a “kill switch” should you need it (cyberattack, etc)
palitu@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Are any of your services public facing?
Yes. i think that is like a “bastion” server, or something like that. good idea. I expect that i can get more-or-less free VPS, and just run the NPM and tailscale or something there.I would not run any of the *arrs on a network that is not yours
Good thought, i dont think i would need it whilst i am away anyway.And definitely make sure your friend knows
yep, responsible hosting :Dthanks for the thoughts.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Well not free VPS (if you want it to be semi-reliable) but within $3-5/mo.
You don’t need to run your NPM on the VPS (although it does make things easier). You can:
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Their IP address is already “exposed to the world.” I keep seeing people recommending this pattern in this community for the same reason. But I genuinely don’t understand it. It sounds like one of those VPN ads frankly.
Your IP address is not private.
Frankly I would mothball the servers and move everything to the cloud rather than use a friend’s resources. You retain control over the environment and don’t need to worry about somebody unplugging your computer to vacuum.
ptz@dubvee.org 9 months ago
I did state “beyond their normal traffic”. And you do realize there’s a significant difference between exposing your IP as a client and exposing your IP as one that has servers hosted behind it, right? It’s not about protecting that or keeping it secret. It’s about not putting a target on their friend’s IP address for all the bots and script kiddies to hit.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
With this pattern you open up an outgoing connection to the VPS, establish a two-way tunnel, and the VPS will use it to forward connections to you.
People who use your services this way see the VPS’s public IP, yours is hidden from them.
Sure, you still have a public IP while doing this but (a) only the VPS can see it and (b) you really don’t have to open ports on it and in fact may not even be reachable through it if it’s doing NAT.