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[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also interested how this works for mobile apps. I self host a number of services through caddy as my reverse proxy but each application is just dependent on it's own authentication. If I exposed all my services to the internet, that's a huge attack vector. If anyone else has some ideas I'd be happy to listen.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

If you are the only user and don't need to use those apps in devices you don't own a vpn is the way to go.

If not. Depending the number of users you could do some heavy ip geoblocking to at least reduce the exposed surface.

There are a few services I have just like 3 IPs allowed to get a response from caddy, any other ip gets 403 error.