I’m in the process of setting up homelab stuff and i’ve been doing some reading. It seems the consensus is to put everything behind a reverse proxy and use a vpn or cloudflare tunnel.
I plan to use a VPN for accessing my internal network from outside and to protect less battle tested foss software. But I feel like if I cant open a port to the internet to host a webserver then the internet is no longer a free place and we’re cooked.
So my question is, Can I expose webserver, SSH, WireGuard to the internet with reasonable safety? What precautions and common mistakes do I need to watchout for.
Yes but im spite driven. I’ll take the extra hit to inflict damage to the crawlers
Problem is many of us are stuck with very low upstream bandwidth due to cable company ISP monopolies and/or data caps or just were running things on a small raspberry pi or something and the malicious requests will create extra expense or flat put denial of service for real traffic.