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[-] jhn@xffxe4.lol 6 points 1 year ago

I already owned my own home server that I built for running a file server and other random things. Currently all I’m paying for is $2.50/month for a proxy server on Google Cloud so I don’t have to expose my stuff directly to the internet.

[-] sarchar@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

How does that Google cloud proxy server work?

[-] jhn@xffxe4.lol 1 points 1 year ago

It’s a bit of a janky solution, but I’m just running an openvpn server on the lowest tier vps which my home server auto-connects to on boot. From there it’s just iptables rules to reroute the external traffic through the VPN. I’ve also used it to proxy Minecraft servers and a few other things.

[-] sarchar@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Would something like WireGuard do the same thing?

[-] jhn@xffxe4.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the choice of VPN doesn't really matter here. I would just configure it to not push a default route to cut down on the amount of traffic going through. You could even use something like ZeroTier if you wanted.

[-] dustedhands@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Does that mean my actual home server is behind a VPN connection but has its traffic transparently routed to the external VPS, which eliminates the need for opening ports on the residential router?

[-] jhn@xffxe4.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's originally why I had it set up this way because I was somewhere where I wasn't able to open any ports.

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