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Should i use Cloudflare? (lemmy.moe)

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

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I recently got a Synology NAS and I am trying to setup Emby. I wanna host a media server however, I wanna be able to access the emby location from anywhere and let say my mom access it. Just I wanna keep it secure. Should I use cloudflare?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just worried about attacks on my router in case someone gets ahold of the link. Im learning all this security stuff. I actually helped my friend with his lemmy instance and got it running.

I just know next to nothing about security...

Give me something to try and get working I'll pick it up, but I don't even know where to start with this stuff. I read something the other day about using cloudflare to connect to a VPS and then direct that to my nas or something.

I have 2 VPS services and 1 already hosts my jellyfin instance but i was gonna try out emby however, I wanna share my library with family like I share my Jellyfin with them. Just the VPS I run my jellyfin on handles all the security stuff. shrugs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

To reduce that, there are a few things you can do.

Option 1:

Only open port 443 and run everything through a reverse proxy like traefik. You can open other ports ad you need them (game server for example)
Run crowdsec to get rid of 95% of bad actors
Whitelist IPs that you know traffic will be coming from and drop everything else

Option 2:

wireguard VPN and just VPN into your home network to access your server

Option 3:

Run tailscale
run fail2ban