Hi all,

I am running proxmox on a mini PC with a handful of services in my stack. I also run NPM in an LXC to reach my services through my domain name (service.domain.tld).

For my Arr related stuff, I use Usenet, and everything runs through a VPN.

I have three services which are public. Jellyfin, Seer and BookOrbit (for syncing Kobos).

Currently I have no security besides the built in login managers from the services, but I am considering setting up Authentik. I know I’m asking for trouble with my current set up.

I have elderly and extremely tech averse family members who live in two countries other than me, so tech support can be a challenge.

A lot of people suggest running a VPN, but it would be difficult for my family and I don’t know how to make it work syncing our Kobos with BookOrbit.

I’ve also seen some posts about tunneling to a VPS somewhere and users can connect to the VPS without a VPN.

I feel this question has been asked several times, and I tried searching here and on the internet in general, but my knowledge is not good enough to use the right terms and to get something that is idiot proof.

Any suggestions on best practices or links to guides you recommend would be much appreciated. Also, what EU based affordable VPS would you recommend?

  • brewery@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Hetzner is great as a provider, highly recommend.

    I use authentik with fail2ban, crowdsec and ufw. I use netbird to act as a VPN between different servers - most services need users to login through there but have a couple on the internet. I also restrict countries to ones my clients are on and update when im going on holiday.

    I use caddy as my reverse proxy with rate limits and crowdsec. I moved from NPM just to try it and liked it.

    SSH is on a different port and restricted to keys only. I also setup ntfy to notify my phone if there are logins (to check it’s just me).

    I use unattended upgrades for security but try to upgrade frequently the servers and docker services.