Hello everyone :D
I’m looking to host some gaming servers to play with my friends (minecraft, enshrouded, and others), and some apps (paperless-ng, jellyfin, seafile, etc.). Each game server must be accessible from the Internet, but only certain applications will be accessible (jellyfin, etc.)
I don’t want to open any ports on my router or share my public IP. I already have a domain name, and I’m thinking of using some VPS to host a reverse proxy with tailscale or netbird.
For the VPS, I’m thinking of using OVH with unlimited bandwidth. I already have the domain name here, and I live in France where the servers are.
A few questions :
- Is this a good idea ? Any better solution is welcome.
- I don’t really know how I’m going to redirect subdomains to use the correct reverse proxy. Local DNS on the VPS ?
- Tailscale or Netbird ? (I actually don’t have any idea)
- Won’t using Tailscale or Netbird like this cause performance losses on game servers ?
Reverse proxy :
cloudflare tunnel?
Stick the cloudflare container in a docker network with other services you wish to expose for access.
Just so everyone is aware, Cloudlfared tunnels allow Cloudflare to see all of your server’s traffic
This can be a solution, but only for game servers, and I’m just going to use Tailscale or Netbird for apps.
From what I can see, it’s possible to use this for playing Minecraft with this mod, modflared. Not the best solution, but a working one (I hope).
Why? I use tunnels for everything, all sorts of apps included. They’re easy to set up, and reliable.
Tailscale is a good solution, though. I use that as well.
I don’t know if this is paranoia, but I don’t read good things on Cloudflare for privacy.
And after some thinking, using OVH VPS is not the best thing to do for privacy…
You got me 😂
They’ve had some security breaches, like most companies. If you’re feeling paranoid, do some reading on nginx vulnerabilities.
Exposing your home servers to the Internet is always risky. There is no 100% safe way to do it.