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?

  • spork@pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 months 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.

            • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Is there a data cap? I’m concerned like they only allow me to pass through like a TB or so of data passing through it within a month. If you have users watching your jellyfin server every day that can surpass your limit.

              • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
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                3 months ago

                Keep in mind that you wouldn’t route local traffic through it, so everything watched at home would be direct and not count.

                I have a $5/mo VPS with OVH and they allow unlimited bandwidth within reason. Unless you have multiple households streaming from your server all the time, likely totally fine. If you do end up with one relative streaming 24x7, then I would look at installing the tailscale app on their TV and configuring things to connect that one user direct to your home server.

                A VPS takes some learning, but IMHO, it is the “correct” answer and worthile learning.