It’s Sunday somewhere already so why wait?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I’ll post my ongoing things later/tomorrow but I didn’t want to forget the post again.
Is exposing it to the internet not an option? Boarding more family members on could be cool.
It might be some way, however not easily. My mega-corpo ISP blocks incoming connections on common hosting ports, because they want to
keep the network safesell expensive home-business plans. LolI’m also very amateur at this as I go along, and I’m not sure I’m ready to deal with the fallout of missing some security step and getting my server botted or ransomwared lol.
I haven’t done the hardware stuff with setting up my own router/firewall box either, for instance.
So Tailscale works really well for me by seemingly magically bypassing a lot of that nonsense and giving me less to worry about. They allow 3 users for free, but have a relatively inexpensive family plan for like 6 users as well, if that becomes necessary.
I mainly just need to tell them not to try and use my server as an exit node if they’re across the country 😂.
But yeah definitely, I’m using this as a way to test the waters for running service alternatives as the web we knew collapses around us lol. I’m not ready to be running something people really rely on yet, though. :)
I expose mine for convenience, and I use multiple layers of security to reduce risk:
That cuts most of the issues.