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Any guides on how to host at home? I'm always afraid that opening ports in my home router means taking the heavy risk of being hacked. Does using something like CloudFlare help? I am a complete beginner.

Edit: Thanks for all the great response! They are very helpful.

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[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

There are ways to host things from home without opening ports in your router at all, this usually involves running something that calls/tunnels out of your network and back to some service and accepts incoming connections and sends them "baskward" over that connection. Cloudflare offers something called Tunnel, ngrok does something similar (though mainly aimed at development and not production hosting), and you can even host something yourself using something like frp (which is what I use, even for the Lemmy instance I am writing this from).

I haven't looked too closely at it, but there is an awesome-tunneling page someone put together that goes over these options and more.

Let me know if you want a bit more details on these options or specifics of how I've set up frp.