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Reverse Proxy vs VPN: How do you access your home-server? (feddit.de)
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The more I am selfhosting the more ports I do open to my reverse proxy.

I also have a VPN (wireguard) but there are also 3 family members that want to access some services.

Open ports are much easier to handle for them.

How many users do you have and how many ports are open?

My case: 4 users (family)/ 8 reversed proxy ports

How many users and open ports have you?

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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Wireguard, as only a handful of people need access to the services, I manage it manually - and not with Tailscale or something similar.

With that my server looks nothing like a server from the outside, as I'm exposing nothing - Wireguard doesn't even show up in a port scan

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I like this approach, but I'm currently sitting in a foreign hotel who's wifi seems to block WG. Annoying. Keep a TLS-protected reverse proxy for things you might need through obscure networks.

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