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Another alternative could be a cloudflare tunnel. It requires installing their Daemon on the server and setting up DNS in their control panel. No ports need ope
by politelemon 1y ago
Another alternative could be a cloudflare tunnel. It requires installing their Daemon on the server and setting up DNS in their control panel. No ports need opening from the outside in.
- troupo 1y agoI used to expose a site hosted on my home NAS through it, and now I do the same from a server at Hetzner. Works like magic :)
- jeroenhd 1y agoThe downside of the Cloudflare approach is that yet more websites are behind Cloudflare's control. The VPS approach works pretty much the same way Cloudflare does, but without the centralized control. On the other hand, Cloudflare is a pretty easy solution against spam bots and scrapers. Probably a better choice if that's something you need protection against.
- PaulKeeble 1y agoEveryone does these days, although its really the AI scrapers you need defence from and Cloudflare isn't doing so good at that yet.
- Aachen 1y agoAs someone who actually hosts stuff at home, I'm not sure everyone does. I don't, for one Maybe if you're on a limited data plan (like in Belgium or on mobile data), you'd want to prevent unnecessary pageloads? Afaik that doesn't apply to most home connections Or if you want to absolutely prevent that LLMs eat your content for moral/copyright reasons, then it can't be on the open internet no matter who your gateway is
- areyourllySorry 1y agoai scrapers are truly this year's boogeyman
- 0xCMP 1y agoI think both are great options. Personally I do split-dns so I can access things "directly" while using Tailscale and via Cloudflare Tunnel when I am not. I also selectively expose via the Cloudflare Tunnel. Most things are tailscale only.