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Considerations for a homeserver thats open to the internet? (Jellyfin / Nextcloud) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by HamalaKarris@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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!!!

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[–] ripe_banana@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the spirit of selfhosting, you can also host headscale. Its an open source implementation of the proprietary tailscale control plane.

It allows you to get over the ~~5~~ device limit (different depending on tiers), as well as keep your traffic on your devices. And, imo, it is pretty stable.

The only issue is that the control plane (by nature) has to be publically accessible. But imo it's way less of a security target than a massive app like nextcloud.

Edit: device limits were wrong

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It allows you to get over the 5 device limit, as well as keep your traffic on your devices. And, imo, it is pretty stable.

I believe tailscale raised the device limit relatively recently but I agree with you in that I prefer to self-host this type of thing.

[–] gornius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK it's now 100, so basically unlimited for personal use.

[–] bloodsangre7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure why the downvote, its right there on the website https://tailscale.com/pricing/

[–] ripe_banana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the correction, edited the post.