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Care to share where you are hosting this? Super curious about this whole selfhosted stuff.
Sure. My hosting infrastructure consists of a VPS that’s acting as a WAF/gateway to a server box that’s on my home connection. The data that travels to and from my server box is encrypted in a VPN tunnel. I chose the Netherlands for this location because it has very strong data privacy laws. I run a hypervisor on said server box too.
If I understand this, you are running a server from your house, and that server is connected to a VPS somewhere in netherlands? and then from that VPS you run burggit.moe?
Super interested in this whole lemmy stuff. Not just because of what is going on in reddit, but overall I think its an awesome idea to have such alternatives.
Yep, the VPS is a reverse proxy that connects to my beefy server box at home. All the VPS has to do is route traffic to my box while my server box does the heavy lifting.
very cool! Thank you for explaining. I am not going that far (yet). All i have for selfhosting is box at home where i host some of the services i like to use. Perhaps lemmy would be a nice project for some day :D
You're welcome, and yeah, I solely use it to protect my box at home from malicious actors, since it's more layers you have to break through. And it hides my real IP.
super smart, never thought of it like that. Luckily for me i hardly have anything leaving my own network. I do use cloudflare, but i am sure its not the most secure or bullet proof.
Just be aware that by using Cloudflare, it actively decrypts your traffic on their end since it acts as a MiTM.
Oh yeah, I am well aware of that thank you for the heads up <3 I don't do anything fancy to really care about such things.