Help me get started with VPN (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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TLDR: VPN-newbie wants to learn how to set up and use VPN.

What I have:

Currently, many of my selfhosted services are publicly available via my domain name. I am aware that it is safer to keep things closed, and use VPN to access -- but I don't know how that works.

domain name mapped via Cloudflare > static WAN IP > ISP modem > Ubiquity USG3 gateway > Linux server and Raspberry Pi.
80,443 fowarded to Nginx Proxy Manager; everything else closed.
Linux server running Docker and several containers: NPM, Portainer, Paperless, Gitea, Mattermost, Immich, etc.
Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole as DNS server for LAN clients.
Synology NAS as network storage.

What I want:

access services from WAN via Android phone.
access services from WAN via laptop.
maybe still keep some things public?
noob-friendly solution: needs to be easy to "grok" and easy to maintain when services change.

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[-] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I second this. Wireguard, openvpn, various docker containers offering these, I've been through with them.

The regular openvpn or wireguard tools are good if you only need a dumb von, but if you want some kind of special routing or overlay network, tailscale has just been so easy.

I selfhost it completely too, using a headscale control server.

this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024

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