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How do I access my services from outside? (lemmy.world)

submitted 16 hours ago by leaf_skeleton@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey all,

I'm setting up a homeserver and trying to figure out the best way to access it remotely. I've been looking at different solutions, but I’m a little stuck.

I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP when I’m also trying to use a commercial VPN for privacy / to combat services fingerprinting me based on my IP.

I'm currently considering a reverse proxy setup with an authentication provider like authentik or authelia, but as far as I understand, that wouldn't work well with accessing services through an app on my mobile device (like for jellyfin music for example.) I did think about just opening up the ports and using a DDNS with a reverse proxy, but is'nt that like a big security risk?

Keep in mind I am no network admin, but I don’t have anything against learning if someone can point me in the right direction.

Also I heard some people say that on proxmox you should use unprivileged containers instead of vms for your services, does that hold up?

Any recommendations for tools or approaches?

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry to burst your bubble, but removing the login form via CSS is just a cosmetic effect and it doesn't have any effect on your security, since bots will try to brute force the login directly using the login endpoint.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh I am fully aware it just cosmetic, that’s why I added this line In my original comment:

but be warned if you take this route that the CSS can be re-enabled on the login screen using your browsers element inspect

hence why I also suggest just outright blacklisting all IP’s and only whitelisting the known few at the reverse proxy level.