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!
I think that depends on if the VPS charges incoming and outgoing external connections, some only charge outgoing. From VPS to browser would be outgoing, from your home instance to VPS would be incoming.
Thank you! It does seem like there are afforadable VPS options that don’t limit traffic anyway, so I might as well start there.
Mind sharing which VPs those are?
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
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…
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!
OVH US has unlimited traffic but limits the bandwidth. I think they start at 100mbps and go over 1gbps depending on which configuration you pick.