Greetings! I currently host a number of services on an old pc in my basement. I have ports 80 and 443 forwarded and am running Nginx Proxy Manager as well as Authelia to protect most of them. I have set up a lemmy instance that I am using as my main point of access to the fediverse. I guess I have two questions. I am assuming that hiding lemmy behind Authelia would break Federation (although maybe only one way?), is that correct? And secondly, would it be objectively safer for me to pay for a VPS, run Nginx Proxy Manager there and then forward all of the traffic to the services hosted in my basement server using Tailscale? Thanks!

    • El Gringo Loco@lemmy.donmcgin.comOP
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      1 year ago

      For sure, I think Oracle has unlimited bandwidth even in it’s free tier. Ionos is one that I was looking at, fairly cheap but also offers unlimited transfer

      • D4NM3D@reddthat.com
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        1 year ago

        Sure… i already have an oracle free tier that i use for NPM (though switching it to caddy) … i’d be wary of trusting either of them for long term usage though…

        • El Gringo Loco@lemmy.donmcgin.comOP
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          1 year ago

          I’ve definitely heard bad things about Oracle deleting people’s machines without warning. Unfortunately I don’t know anything about Ionos. I may go with Linode, their cheapest VPS at $5/month has a 1TB transfer limit, which I might stay under. But please let me know if you end up finding a decent option from a reliable company!

    • thorn_staff@lemmy.avata.social
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      1 year ago

      OVH US has unlimited traffic but limits the bandwidth. I think they start at 100mbps and go over 1gbps depending on which configuration you pick.