I have several selfhosted services that I have been using for months, now I wish to access these while I am not at home. Likes of nextcloud, nocodb, wikijs and other media sharing self-hosted services
I would like to know what precautions should I take so no one knows that such a domain exists.
should I purchase a crazy numbered domain like 671341412312.com ? or should I go for .tk domains.
Would like to get some suggestions from this community on other aspects that I am missing.
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VPN is the way to go. Could use this opportunity to upgrade your router. I bought a box from protectli and run OPNsense on it. There’s good documentation on how to set up a wireguard vpn, and the community is vibrant.
Its also nice because there’s lots of options so its a nice thing to grow and learn with.
Warning: tk domains registrar has 0 GDPR.
Might be irrelevant now, but I didn’t managed to delete my data once I wanted out
I never really understood the concept behind their free domains, but I never purchased a free/cheap domain after my first experience of getting charged 2-3 times for renewal.
However, are you talking about deletion of your personal data or your website data ?
Out of curiosity. If someone is accessing self hosted services only from certain locations where ip addresses are known, is it a good idea to whitelist those ips in firewall and block external access for the rest?
This is my policy: For publicly accessible services like a website, I use a cloudflare tunnel. For restricted access to just a few users, I use a cloudflare tunnel and a cloudflare application to manage access authentication. For my exclusive restricted access to the infrastructure, I used tailscale.
ZeroTeir (or a VPN) - if all you want is to access those services from outside your network
IMO - the only reason to put something “on the internet” is so that the entire “internet” can access it