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Solutions for remote access? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been setting up a music server on my home server recently, looking to move away from private hosting options like iBroadcast, but I've hit a bit of a snag when it comes to actually accessing my server when away from home.

The two most common recommendations I've seen are Cloudflare and OpenVPN. My router supports OVPN access, so I gave that a try, but couldn't ever actually make it work. I don't know for sure, but I think it's probably something with my ISP that I can't really easily work around. As far as Cloudflare goes, setting up a tunnel requires you to have a domain set up with them even if you're just using Warp, and since I don't have one, that's not an option.

What other good options are there for remote access? I'm running Open Media Vault as my server. Thanks.

Edit: Based on responses, it looks like Tailscale is the way to go since it's all private to me. Thanks everyone!

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[–] philpo@feddit.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just a theory: There is a good chance that your provider does CG-NAT and that was the issue with OpenVPN. These would persist with wireguard,sadly, unless you solve them properly. (Which can be tricky). But just for the book: Running an Wireguard Container behind your router and have a port forwarded to it is an option. (But still needs CG NAT adressed)

Thaft leaves you with a few options:

  • Cloudflare: Imho a bad idea - it's evil, it's monopolistic and while it's "an easy way" it has its technical downsides. As you said a domain is still required.

  • Use a small VPS and run a wireguard tunnel and maybe pangolin as a reverse proxy on it.It has the benefit of being very flexible and once configured is fairly stable and it puts the security part outside your network. But it costs money unless you maybe make it work on oracle's free tier. I would still recommend using a cheap domain,though)

  • As others have mentioned: Tailscale/Zerotier/Netbird absolutely are an option if it's just for you. But they get nasty if it's for more people or larger deployments with tailscale and while netbird is far better it's less common and does require a domain as well. (Which,again,is not a bad idea to have)