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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ssh behind a wire guard VPN server is technically more secure if you don't have a key-only login, but a pain if the container goes down or if you need to access the server without access to wireguards VPN client on your device.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Highly recommend getting a router that can accept wireguard connections. If the router goes down you're not accessing anything anyways.

Then always put ssh behind the wireguard connections.

For a homelab, there is rarely a need to expose ssh directly so best practice will always be to have multi layered security when possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah it's good to have a system separate from the main server. It's always so frustrating having to debug wireguard issues cause there's some problem with docker