Selfhosted

An $11/yr domain pointed at my IP. Port 443 is open to nginx, which proxies to the desired service depending on subdomain. (and explicitly drops any connection that uses my raw ip or an unrecognized name to connect, without responding at all)

ACME.sh automatically refreshes my free ssl certificate every ~2months via DNS-01 verification and letsencrypt.

And finally, I've got a dynamic IP, so DDClient keeps my domain pointed at the correct IP when/if it changes.

There's also pihole on the local network, replacing the WAN IP from external DNS, with the servers local IP, for LAN devices to use. But that's very much optional, especially if your router performs NAT Hairpinning.

This setup covers all ~24 of the services/web applications I host, though most other services have some additional configuration to make them only accessible from LAN/VPN despite using the same ports and nginx service. I can go into that if there's interest.

Only Emby/Jellyfin, Ombi, and Filebrowser are made accessible from WAN; so I can easily share those with friends/family without having to guide them through/restrict them to a vpn connection.

I use a VPS and a wiregusrd tunnel.

https://codeberg.org/skjalli/jellyfin-vps-setup

Jellyfin through a traefik proxy, with a WAF as middleware and brute force login protected by fail2ban

for me i just needed a basic system so my family could share so I have it on my pc, then I registered a subdomain and pointed it to my existing ec2 server with apache using a proxy which points to my local ip and port then I opened the jellyfin port on my router

and I have certbot for my domain on ec2 :)

Is putting it behind an Oauth2 proxy and running the server in a rootless container enough?

Sad that mTLS support is non existent because it solves this problem.

For my travel devices, I use Tailscale to talk to the server. For raw internet, I use their funnel feature to expose the service over HTTPS. Then just have fail2ban watching the port to make sure no shenanigans or have the entire service offlined until I can check it.

Nobody here with a tailscale funnel?? It's such a simple way to get https access from anywhere without being on the tailnet.

SWAG reverse proxy with a custom domain+subdomain, protected by authentik and fail2ban. Easy access from anywhere once it's set up. No vpn required, just type in the short subdomain.domain.com and sign in (or the app keeps me signed in)

OpenVPN into my router

Synology worked for me. They have built in reverse proxy. As well as good documentation to install it on their machine. Just gotta configure your wifi router to port forward your device and bam you're ready to rock and roll

Unifi teleport. A zero configuration VPN to my home network.

Synology with Emby (do not use the connect service they offer) running behind my fortinet firewall. DDNS with my own domain name and ssl cert. Open 1 custom port (not 443) for it, and that's it. Geoblock every country but my own, which basically eliminated all random traffic that was hitting hit. I've been running it this way for 5 years now and have no issues to report.