Hi everyone, first time posting since the Reddit went nuclear on sanity. With the advent of Lemmy, I finally got around to booting my home-server back up and stood up my own instance :)

How do you all self host stuff? I’ve been happily running Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Plex, etc locally, but none of that has been internet facing. As I’m getting back into this I want to share stuff with my friends and family and getting them all to use a VPN seems like a stretch.

Wondering if the general consensus is that it’s better to put shit on a VPS, on your own HW locally (with firewalls, safeguards, etc) or some combo of the two?

  • Outcide@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have a small vps and a Nuc at home.

    Vps is for things that are important enough that I want to be able to fix them if they break when im away from home (Vaultwarden, linkding, wiki, blog etc).

    Server at home is for stuff that needs lots of disk (Jellyfin, gonic, AudioBookShelf etc) and is where I screw around and try new stuff.

    Services at home are exposed to internet via cloudflare tunnels (grrr cgnat).

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Things that I need to be internet facing run on an actual server, most of my stuff is hosted on a laptop in my living room and I use tailscale to access it from outside the house, but I mostly consider that a plus and wouldn’t depend on it.

    • NewDataEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I second this. I only access anything internet facing via tailscale.

      The only question I have now, is how do I let family and friends access certain services without tailscale?

      I’m thinking a vps with something like authelia in the front that tunnels into my server via tailscale.