Hi, I know this topic has been talked about 70 thousand times but I’m still not sure.
I have home server on an intel NUC behind the ISP router. On it I have the standard arr apps, jellyfin, pi-hole etc etc. I would like to access them through a domain rather than an IP. So I set them up in docker, behind traefik, behind authelia and behind cloudflare. I am the only one that uses it.
Now, I’m worried about the security of it all. I’ve been searching here and there and I’ve read about cf tunnels, wireguard server, vps, vlan, OPNsense etc etc. I still don’t know what would be the most secure. Should I just stay with what I have?
EDIT: I’m not behind CGNAT
My router supported OpenVPN out of the box so I just use that and have remote connections disabled in all of my software
I’m curious what the other, more advanced users here have to tell me about it because I’m still new to the self hosted stuff and that was the first thing I thought of to do
Wireguard is just much faster connection-wise. Built into the kernel too. Since it came out I haven’t gone back to openvpn.
Nothing wrong with openvpn otherwise. More config options.
Something like Tailscale makes wireguard setup dead easy.
This is what I use too. Also using the provided dynamic dns server just makes this dead simple and has been working for years. Is there a good reason to switch?