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How do you guys self host? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 2 years ago by psycrow to c/selfhosted

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I've been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I've never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it's impossible to flash most consumer grade routers.

id like to learn more stuff about cyber security, host other stuff, maybe host a website, but I'm just a guy who lives in an apartment. I'm stuck with 1 Internet service that claims it will terminate my service if they find me to be hosting anything. They must be semi-lax with that rule, because i haven't gotten terminated for using ssh and cockpit.

Do you guys own a house, or are just fortunate enough to have access to an ISP that will let you host your own stuff?

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Firewall / OpenBSD running on APU2

Wireguard (only thing open to the public)
IPSec site-to-site to Oracle cloud (only open for Oracle VPN GW IP)
NSD for authoritative DNS
Unbound for DNS filtering (unbound adblock script)
script that updates my public IP to DNS provider should it change

Containers / Debian running on Asus PN62

Portainer for controlling local Docker as well as one in the Oracle Cloud
certbot with DNS auth to get certificate for local services, this way I don't need to open anything to the Internet
Traefik as reverse proxy configured via labels

Cloud

Cloudflare

This is in front of public services
Public DNS

Oracle Cloud

Free tier server (4x vCPU, 24GB RAM) with Docker, Traefik, Portainer agent
IPSec from home so I can control Docker on my cloud server

Azure

Azure blob storage for backups (Restic)

Everything is separated as much as I can. All stacks are on separate networks with strict firewall rules (iptables) on host to control which container can talk to others. For example Traefik can talk to Gitea but not vice versa. Everything on physical network is separated by VLANs.