The first publicly open instance


I want to start with self hosting something available from internet. Currently I have jellyfin, nas etc but everything is available in local network.

My biggest concern is securing local network. I thought i will run application on separate server, I will use small vps as proxy, but Im not sure if it will be enough

in reply to Kkk2237pl

I was pondering the same for last couple of days and had some thoughts on how to make it feasible. My research led me so far to 2 prerequisites:

  1. must have Anubis in front
  2. must have a WAF solution in place that covers at least OWASP Top 10

I found pretty good Caddy documentation that covers both, so I think I’ll deploy a secondary Caddy reverse proxy that’ll perform such ops for public facing services.

Of course, I currently have only 1 Caddy instance reverse proxy ing my internal services, haven’t reached the part on traffic handling when my devices are connected to the “safe network” (aka my home LAN)

in reply to Kkk2237pl

Have you considered Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. When you use Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, you don't need to fiddle with NAT, open any ports, in fact you don't need any open ports. You just install Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust on your server, connect to your Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust account, and Cloudflare does the rest. To deploy Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust you will need a domain name. Cloudflare will sell you a domain name but I think most get something cheap from NamesCheap or Pork Bun. When you have secured a domain name, switch the nameservers to the ones that Cloudflare assigns you. Jacks a doughnut, Bob's your uncle.

ETA: Obviously you'll need port 22 for administration.

sudo ufw default deny incoming

sudo ufw default allow outgoing

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