Safer to host NPM on a VPS? (lemmy.donmcgin.com)

submitted 3 years ago by ElGringoLoco@lemmy.donmcgin.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[-] ElGringoLoco@lemmy.donmcgin.com 3 points 3 years ago

I've definitely thought about it, and I would if it were just me. I share some services with family and I don't want to be responsible for troubleshooting if they accidentally uninstall tailscale or reset their phones

[-] curioushom@lemmy.one 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah worth the reduced headache. Good luck!

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