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Is it possible to completely hide all reverse proxy traffic from a VPS provider? in c/selfhosted

How do you deal with malicious requests to your servers? in c/selfhosted

Anyone hosting Lemmy and Mastodon on the same server? in c/selfhosted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, I know what you mean. I managed to get them both setup in docker containers on the same server, but I'll admit getting Lemmy up was a pain. The documentation is vague on some steps, but it's FOSS so I can't complain.

Here is my pastebin with notes for my Lemmy docker compose which is modified from their example. You'll notice it has an nginx web service. You can technically forego that and put it in your final reverse proxy. I chose not to so that it stays similar to their example.
For Mastodon, I am using the Linuxserver container. Their documentation is straightforward IMO, but then again I'm used to their setup.
With the two ports exposed for both services, you can then put it behind a reverse proxy.

Hope this helps!

Anyone hosting Lemmy and Mastodon on the same server? in c/selfhosted

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

Curious, what's the reason for one in docker and one not?

Own lemmy in c/selfhosted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can obfuscate your location with a reverse proxy. The biggest problem with self-hosting is what can get compromised if they get access inside your network as opposed to a VPS. Keeping up to date on what is publically facing for vulnerabilities starts to become a chore.

Email Hosting w/SMTP, what do you use? in c/selfhosted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

+1 on MXRoute and lifetime plan. It has been solid for me. The unlimited domains is also icing on the cake. I haven't even gotten close to 10 gigs but once I do I'll just transfer all the emails with attachments locally and keep chugging along.

If you had to redo your self hosting setup, what would you do differently this time around? in c/selfhosted

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Setup for high availability. I have a hard time taking things down now since other people rely on my setup being on.

[Question] Hosting Multiple Sites (different domains) from One VPS in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, what you're looking for is a reverse proxy. All the incoming traffic to the server goes though it, typically on TCP port 80 or 443. Reverse proxy then directs the traffic to all the backend apps. The backend apps can be literally anywhere else or even on the same server on a different port.

Traefik, Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, Linuxserver SWAG are the popular choices these days. See which one fits you best.

Edit: Overlooked you mentioning you are already using Traefik. Subdomain, domain, makes no difference. Just point the DNS record to your VPS and have Traefik direct it towards the correct port on the same server.