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My suggestion would be to setup a VPN service in your publicly available v-server. The most suggested solution is wireguard.
Then you can connect your truenas to that VPN and make it accessible, maybe via nginx.
The traffic flow would be:
nginx on v-server --(wireguard)--> traefik --> NextcloudThat's a good point. But that's also the point where my tinkering won't help me... Do you have a writeup or a yt video where nginx points to the wireguard VPN? Another question. If I set up the wireguard tunnel, how can I just route the traffic from traefik?
I found this writeup and it looks correct, but I have not tested it.
The author posted a nice graphic that shows the idea:
I'm not sure I understand why they need two Caddy servers. The first one should be a simple port forward, no need for a proxy forward. Unless they want to do something with the connections at application level, but it sounds like they simply forward them as-is.
You need two caddy servers if there are other websites on the vserver that will use port 80/443. If not, port forwarding (eg. with iptables) will work.
Basically once you have WG set up, you will have an additional interface with it's own IP in "ifconfig". At that point all the ports are available and you can just point your reverse proxy to them (sorry I'm an NGINX user, I have no idea how Traefik works).
Additionally don't forget to add keep-alive in your WG config so that the service doesn't shut off once traffic stops going between both servers.
Install Tailscale (1) on the VPS and (2) in a Docker container on TrueNAS. The Tailscale container #2 will replace the cloudflared container. Set the Tailscale #2 node as a subnet router exposing the Traefik container's netmask (you probably already know how to get networking going between two Docker containers).
What you'll end up with:
Internet -> DNS (your domain) -> VPS public IP (Tailscale node #1 ===> Tailscale node #2 in Docker on TrueNas) -> Traefik -> web apps on your TrueNAS
Tailscale is not bandwidth-limited like Cloudflare because the nodes only use Tailscale's servers for the initial rendez-vous (to get out of NAT), then you will use the direct bandwidth between the VPS and your home connection.
You will also be able to use other DNS services if you want, because you won't be forced to use Cloudflare's anymore.
This actually sounds insanely cool. Without having looked at their documentation, can you make a rough statement about the required hardware power for the VPS, especially if traffic may include bandwith heavy stuff like movie streaming or large data up/downloads?
In that case you should probably give up using your own domain and take the one from Tailscale because they would intermediate direct connections whenever possible.
The main limitation on the VPS would be bandwidth as well as total transfer, not so much processing power because their just be moving stuff through. They all come with limits.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CF | CloudFlare |
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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rathole aims to be somewhat of a replacement for CF tunnels. It was featured on noted some time ago: https://noted.lol/cgnat-and-rathole/
A linode vps is what I use
This question is not related to the question you ask but where did you learn to configure traefik? When I try it out I didn't understand how to route traffic through that.
So I use traefik on my truenas server from the truecharts catalogue. If you need help there I can send you the corresponding links from the website later, I am not at the computer right now.
I will really appreciate if you send me the links! The image is broken and not loading :(
So here is the setup for truecharts with traefik and the things needed for proper truecharts setup: https://truecharts.org/manual/SCALE/guides/getting-started
Do you also use cloudflare tunnel?
Besides the great suggestions others have given, the OpenZiti project (openziti.io) looks interesting, though I haven’t found the need or time to try it out.
Have you tried zerotier? Another option is to get a vps with unlimited bandwith and setup ovpn server on it. Then you need a router that can connect as a client to vpn. This way you will have a public ip and you dont need to mess with tunnel services. A vps with public ip is about 10 bucks a month.
You could proxy your Webservice though a reverse SSH tunnel to a vps (that's basically what cloudflare tunnels do)
The easiest way I found to passthrough a cgnat is using a VPN.
I suggest using Tailscale, cause it does some tricks to bypass cgnat and you can access your truenas server.
I'm in the same boat and looking at options. I've benchmarked several options tht provide their own relays, and am in the process of setting up my own relays to test out on oracle free tier vps, which will probably be the best option as all the bandwidth that vps can handle will be dedicated to you and not shared. That said I've found tailscale to perform the best and twingate to perform the worst. I'm looking at netbird and netmaker but they're extremely buggy and difficult to get going. Netbird is just busted in so many ways. Netmaker's relays can't get past my cgnat. Self hosting both of these should work but I've not tried it yet. The absolute easiest to set up has been tailscale though, can't go wrong with that. For most use cases except for handling massive amounts of data, tailscale should be more than sufficient. That said, I'm looking to try selfhosting netbird, netmaker and headscale to see how those perform compared to tailscale's own relays.