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How to share services with non-techincal friends and family (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by nopersonalspace to c/selfhosted

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I have a Jellyfin server, NextCloud instance, etc that I share with friends and family. Currently, I serve them over the open-internet using Cloudflare tunnels. Obviously this has some security implications that I don't love. Also recently one of my domains got flagged as malicious by google and now Chrome browsers won't go to the site - annoying.

I use Tailscale already to access my server infra remotely, but honestly I don't see this as a viable option for my non-technical friends and family. Plus, I need to support all kinds of devices like smart tvs. How do you fine folks deal with this issue?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i have a public ip and my own domain attached to that. i use subdomains for each service and a dashboard on the root domain.

i don't use authelia etc, and rely on the autentication page of each service. but i have fail2ban.

i did help them set up the apps, but they took from there. the dashboard on the root domain helps them navigate all services without having to remember the full url.

[–] nopersonalspace 3 points 1 year ago

Cool, yeah sounds very similar to what I have going on. Seems like this is the way to go