Hey, I was thinking about getting a VPS and hosting my own single user Lemmy instance. I am trying to think of other things to host. I already have some old hardware running unRAID with Plex, the *arrs, Kavita and home assistant. This is pushing my hardware to the limit but I still want to mess around with some self hosted things. Is there anything you would rather host on a rented server as opposed to a server sitting at your home?

  • Luca@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I use a VPS as a homelab gateway of sorts from the outside.

    Essentially, the VPS runs a Wireguard server that I connect to on my OPNSense Router. The VPS then reverse-proxies all incoming traffic through the tunnel to my homelab. All my DNS entries point to the VPS’s IP. This pretty much gives me a static IP, hides my real IP, and lets me do some light caching on the VPS. Kind of like a DIY cloudflare.

    I also run Uptime Kuma on the VPS, since it will continue to work if my local network is down.

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      1 year ago

      Indeed, this is perfect. No need for something like Cloudflare proxying in this case.

      Which reverse-proxy do you use?