Hey guys,
after reading up on selfhosting for weeks now I finally decided to take the plunge today and tried setting up my own nextcloud & jellyfin instances. For this purpose I am using a mini PC. (similiar to an Intel NUC)
Now I would like to make both services available to the internet so I could show images to friends while I’m at their place / watch movies with them.
The problem is I am currently not very educated on which security measures I would have to take to ensure that my server / mini PC doesn’t immediately become an easy target for a hacker, especially considering that I would host private photos on the nextcloud.
After googling around I feel like I find a lot of conflicting information as well as write-ups that I don’t fully grasp with my limited knowledge so if you guys have any general advice or even places to learn about all these concepts I would be absolutely delighted!
Thank you guys sooo much in advance for any and all help, the c/selfhosted community has been nothing but a great resource for me so far!!!
I agree with this assessment. You do not need an overlay mesh network like tailscale for your use case that is way overkill.
And if you are running Jellyfin as opposed to Plex then you probably care about realizing the security benefits of open source so you definately don’t need a closed source proprietary solution like tailscale or creating accounts on someone elses computer for protection from x. Cloudflair is selling a closed source solution to a problem you don’t have.
This is selfhosting yet these recommendations are all for signing up for accounts and software from the largest centralized systems on the Internet and routing all your traffic through Oracle or cloudflair, lol If your going to do that then why not just host everything with Amazon or switch to Google products. You don’t need any of that noise.
Your best bet is to create a reverse proxy- a single ingress point in front of those few services with a single open port. Pick whatever web server you want your server already has Apache and it like 10 lines of config very simple.