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I want to expose my services publicly on my own domain name, how would you guys do that?

I have seen people using Cloudflare, but I don't want to use Cloudflare out of principle. I have also seen stuff on caddy and frp that I've done some rough researching.

What do you guys do?

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[–] lazylemons@lemmy.today -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Recently set up caddy myself, very straightforward setup. You essentially just edit one config file and point your domain host to the right place and are good to go. Took me by surprise actually.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but my main concern is security. If I publicly have services like jellyfin or something then I would think I would have constant exploits and bot attacks

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

You will.

Anything you expose should be designed for it (e.g. not jellyfin). You should have a WAF configured for the type of service you're hosting. You can't just drop one and have it magically protect you, they take configuration. Same with fail2ban.

And you should have these services in a DMZ, so that a compromise in one doesn't provide an entry point to other resources on your network.