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VPN as the day of today?
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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In my opinion, a VPN is a must-have, especially if you’re self-hosting, especially for a media server.
What does VPN hide that HTTPS can’t hide for media server?
I am looking at the scenario of listening to my music collection on self-hosted Jellyfin server.
IP address of my phone? That’s irrelevant.
HTTPS is way faster than VPN.
HTTPS Doesn't hide where the traffic is going, so your ISP will track you going to piracy sites. It also doesn't protect you against identification when torrenting.
VPN into your home lab isn't about privacy, it's more about reducing your exposed services to the public internet.
If you have only the ports needed to VPN back into your network, then the rest is hidden behind your router. You only need to fully secure one thing, instead of having to ensure that everything is 100% patched.
It's not the only thing you should be doing, but it does help reduce the probability of a breach.
I don't see how exposing only port 443 makes much difference and port 80 for letsencrypt renewals.
It could hide your IP from someone on Lemmy finding your IP address
Any HTTP proxy will do it without VPN complexity.
They didn't really ask about a proxy server, I just gave them one thing a VPN could do