Hi all,

I am running proxmox on a mini PC with a handful of services in my stack. I also run NPM in an LXC to reach my services through my domain name (service.domain.tld).

For my Arr related stuff, I use Usenet, and everything runs through a VPN.

I have three services which are public. Jellyfin, Seer and BookOrbit (for syncing Kobos).

Currently I have no security besides the built in login managers from the services, but I am considering setting up Authentik. I know I’m asking for trouble with my current set up.

I have elderly and extremely tech averse family members who live in two countries other than me, so tech support can be a challenge.

A lot of people suggest running a VPN, but it would be difficult for my family and I don’t know how to make it work syncing our Kobos with BookOrbit.

I’ve also seen some posts about tunneling to a VPS somewhere and users can connect to the VPS without a VPN.

I feel this question has been asked several times, and I tried searching here and on the internet in general, but my knowledge is not good enough to use the right terms and to get something that is idiot proof.

Any suggestions on best practices or links to guides you recommend would be much appreciated. Also, what EU based affordable VPS would you recommend?

  • Seldon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I use Pangolin on a kinda cheap VPS on Hetzner (they’re now a bit too pricey), and route my services through Site Connectors (Newt, it’s called). Dealing with opening my firewall is a pain I don’t wanna think about, but Pangolin creates a websocket and can do NAT traversal from the Site Connector, so no swiss-cheesing your firewall.

    It’s nice because you can contain different services with VLANs to further segment and protect your network, and each Site Connector can work for many services (if there’s no firewall rules restricting it/VLANs) or you can put a Site Connector on each server individually, if segmentation is important to you.