I want to expose my services publicly on my own domain name, how would you guys do that?

I have seen people using Cloudflare, but I don’t want to use Cloudflare out of principle. I have also seen stuff on caddy and frp that I’ve done some rough researching.

What do you guys do?

  • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    What I do: VPS with reverse proxy and ssh reverse tunnels from the homelab.

    OG would be to understand IPv6 and use that directly. Depending on the services you plan to expose that could be a good way. Tried it some years ago, was hit and miss and I still don’t get my head around how v6 work…but that would be the most independent, standalone way.

  • spork@pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    I rent a cheap VPS with iptables routing ports through a wireguard tunnel to a peer on the local network that acts as a firewall and reverse proxy, this gives you a static IP with a local control plane and no ddns.

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
      0·
      9 days ago

      Same but nftables and also crowdsec.

      Also I had some trouble with the wireguard tunnel dropping lots of packets, which resulted in my services not loading 50% of the time. I did a lot of suggestions at the same time so I’m not sure which one fixed it but here is a list in case anybody has similar troubles:

      • lowering MTU
      • routing ipv6 through the tunnel as well
      • rewriting nftables rule order
      • …

      (will update after work, notes are at home)

        • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
          1·
          16 hours ago

          I’m still having trouble with it and I’m currently traveling. My analysis so far points to my vps provider being at fault.

          I tried doing long term diagnostics, which effectively pinged through the tunnel every 5s and that make it work constantly and perfectly. So maybe some energy saving sleep stuff, which ends up breaking the tunnel?

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    ISP Internet Service Provider
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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