Why VPN tunnels are safer than opening a port on my router? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by cheddar@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi!

I often read suggestions to use something like Tailscale to create a tunnel between a home server and a VPS because it is allegedly safer than opening a port for WireGuard (WG) or Nginx on my router and connecting to my home network that way.

However, if my VPS is compromised, wouldn't the attacker still be able to access my local network? How does using an extra layer (the VPS) make it safer?

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
CGNAT	Carrier-Grade NAT
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NAT	Network Address Translation
SMB	Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
UDP	User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx	Popular HTTP server

14 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 17 acronyms.

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