Would I be compromising on the security of my local network and all the devices on it?

I have a ton of local-only self hosted services, some may have personal data that I would not be compromised of affected.

Now of course, I can work on securing those local services from each other, but still, the idea of opening up a port to the public seems incredibly insecure to me. Is there a way to host services publicly from a local network without compromising on security?

I know I could host on a cloud provider or VPS, but for certain things I’d prefer to keep it local (especially for things that may violate VPS providers’ terms of service, like media apps)

  • macgregor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I host publicly accessible content on my network. There is a risk, yes, and it takes understanding and work to do it safely. My firewall is dropping packets from all over the world constantly from crawlers/bots. If you don’t know what you are doing, using something like tailscale is going to be way safer and easier.