I have a few things that I host from my house. I have read that it’s better practice to route stuff through a VPS to not expose your home IP.
Here’s what I’ve done so far: VPN setup on VPS with successful routing of containers. Confirmed by using a CLI IP check within the container which returned the VPS IP. I used PiVPN because I know it and it’s easy to set up.
Where I got stuck: I pointed Nginx to the supposed IP:port of the connection, but couldn’t get it to load.
What should I do next?
Unless your VPN provider supports static port mapping, this is not going to work.
The VPN is hosted on the VPS, which I rent and have full control of. It’s my own VPN between my devices.
The intent is to put my VPS between my services and the outside world so that it doesn’t expose my home IP.
Okay…back up a bit.
You have a VPS server hosted somewhere…so which IP are you trying to obfuscate with a VPN?
Why don’t you just host your public services on the VPS, and whatever else private on your home equipment.
My goal was to hide my home IP by routing everything through the VPS. The VPN is hosted on the VPS.
The VPS is 1 core and 35 GB of storage. I host several websites and some game serves on my home server.