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Ways to Expose Services Publicly (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I want to expose my services publicly on my own domain name, how would you guys do that?

I have seen people using Cloudflare, but I don't want to use Cloudflare out of principle. I have also seen stuff on caddy and frp that I've done some rough researching.

What do you guys do?

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (19 children)

I recently switched to Netbird on a VPS (on Vultr). Their reverse proxy is super easy to set up / self host. They also offer a free version that works pretty good too, I just wanted to make it difficult for myself (thats the whole point of self hosting, right? )

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    I have seen netbird pop around every now and again. I might try out their cloud free version first and if I like it I might try self hosting it.

    So you host netbird on a vps you rent and that is used for reverse proxy? So with that reverse proxy I can have my home server be publicly accessible and I can have friends log in to my jellyfin server without having to connect to my tailnet.

    My last concern is security. How is this set up good for making sure I don't just get constantly botted and exploited?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    You're probably misunderstanding what netbird does (unless I'm the one misunderstanding things?).

    Netbird subnet is equivalent to a tailscale tailnet (for all practical purposes; they even both use wireguard and hole-punching underneath). Netbird is not a reverse proxy (which I feel is what you think based on your comment).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    While Netbird is generally just one of the many alternatives to Tailscale, they also do have a Reverse Proxy feature that allows access without a Netbird client. Haven't tested it yet, seems to be in beta.

    https://docs.netbird.io/manage/reverse-proxy

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