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Is it considered bad practice to expose selfhosted services on public internet? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by OmltCat@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I see a lot of people here uses some form of remote access tool (VPN/Tailscale) to access their home network when not at home. I can’t really do this because my phone (iOS) can only activate one VPN profile at a time, and I often need this for other stuff.

So I chose to expose most web based services on the public internet, behind Authelia. But I don’t know how safe this is.

What I’m really unsure are things like Vaultwarden: while the web interface is protected by Authelia (even use 2FA), its API address needs to be bypassed for direct access, otherwise the mobile APP won’t work. It feels like this is negative everything I’ve done so far.

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[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I have my nextcloud server exposed, I keep it up to date, patched, etc. but I'd love to use the extra protection of a VPN. Just ... I don't think mobile apps work very well with that, unless I keep my phone constantly connected to the VPN, right? Or is there a smart way to do that?

[–] twent4@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

this thread mentions an OVPN client that can do split tunneling so all you'd do is whitelist your server in the android phone and turn it on.

ProtonVPN has tunneling too, for instance, but no self hosting option.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yea that’s basically the reason why I can’t use a VPN.

In fact there isn’t really a problem to leave your phone connected to the selfhosted VPN all the time. If split tunneling works properly, only traffic that access your home network would actually go through the VPN, all others will just get bypassed.

But in my case, I already need to be connected to another VPN most of my day, so can’t really go this route.

[–] SomethingBurger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I believe you can configure your phone to only route traffic to your server though the VPN.

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Nice! ... how exactly, I wanna know :)