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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How does that Google cloud proxy server work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s a bit of a janky solution, but I’m just running an openvpn server on the lowest tier vps which my home server auto-connects to on boot. From there it’s just iptables rules to reroute the external traffic through the VPN. I’ve also used it to proxy Minecraft servers and a few other things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would something like WireGuard do the same thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah the choice of VPN doesn't really matter here. I would just configure it to not push a default route to cut down on the amount of traffic going through. You could even use something like ZeroTier if you wanted.

[–] dustedhands 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does that mean my actual home server is behind a VPN connection but has its traffic transparently routed to the external VPS, which eliminates the need for opening ports on the residential router?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's originally why I had it set up this way because I was somewhere where I wasn't able to open any ports.

[–] dustedhands 1 points 2 years ago

Do you know of any guides on how to do the same (vpn and related config)? I'm trying something similar in my home setup.