Greetings! I currently host a number of services on an old pc in my basement. I have ports 80 and 443 forwarded and am running Nginx Proxy Manager as well as Authelia to protect most of them. I have set up a lemmy instance that I am using as my main point of access to the fediverse. I guess I have two questions. I am assuming that hiding lemmy behind Authelia would break Federation (although maybe only one way?), is that correct? And secondly, would it be objectively safer for me to pay for a VPS, run Nginx Proxy Manager there and then forward all of the traffic to the services hosted in my basement server using Tailscale? Thanks!

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[–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Thank you! It does seem like there are afforadable VPS options that don't limit traffic anyway, so I might as well start there.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Mind sharing which VPs those are?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    For sure, I think Oracle has unlimited bandwidth even in it's free tier. Ionos is one that I was looking at, fairly cheap but also offers unlimited transfer

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sure.. i already have an oracle free tier that i use for NPM (though switching it to caddy) .. i'd be wary of trusting either of them for long term usage though...

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago

    I've definitely heard bad things about Oracle deleting people's machines without warning. Unfortunately I don't know anything about Ionos. I may go with Linode, their cheapest VPS at $5/month has a 1TB transfer limit, which I might stay under. But please let me know if you end up finding a decent option from a reliable company!

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