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After some trial and error, I've managed to successfully deploy public instances of privacy-respecting services! (reallyaweso.me)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, you guys might know me from these three posts. After reading all of the comments, I've decided to purchase a Mini PC to host public instances of privacy-respecting services.

I'm here to bring some good news: I got it working perfectly! You can visit reallyaweso.me today and get a list of services that I'm hosting!

All services are deployed via Docker and proxied through Cloudflare. You might ask: "Why Cloudflare?". It's because I can't port forward things on my home network. It really sucks that I'm depending on Cloudflare to do the port forwarding for me, but it is what it is.

If you want me to host a specific service that you want, feel free to comment on this post!

I would really appreciate it if you guys could checkout some services that I'm hosting, as I don't know if everything went smoothly or not. Thank you guys so much for helping me on this journey!!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have rented a cheap vps and use ssh encrypted port fotwarding to it instead of cloudflare. Its an option in alternative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I prefer owning my server hardware than renting a VPS. I completely forgot that I couldn't port forward in my home network, so Cloudflare was my last-minute solution to that problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I think parent is hosting on their own physical hardware, just using a VPS for a public IP. I do the same (I use WireGuard instead, but similar idea). The VPS is doing the same thing as Cloud flare in your setup. I'm a proponent of this setup because the only reliance is on a totally generic VPS, of which there are many providers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

To throw in another alternative to SSH tunnels and WireGuard: rathole

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No, I mean, do host on your own hardware then rent a vps and use it as public IP by ssh-tunneling and forward ports 80/443 back to your own hardware.

The idea is: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=selfhost:architecture

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yes exactly, you can switch as fast as your DNS entry gets updated and you have zero dependency to a specific provider.