Is it considered bad practice to expose selfhosted services on public internet? - eviltoast

I see a lot of people here uses some form of remote access tool (VPN/Tailscale) to access their home network when not at home. I can’t really do this because my phone (iOS) can only activate one VPN profile at a time, and I often need this for other stuff.

So I chose to expose most web based services on the public internet, behind Authelia. But I don’t know how safe this is.

What I’m really unsure are things like Vaultwarden: while the web interface is protected by Authelia (even use 2FA), its API address needs to be bypassed for direct access, otherwise the mobile APP won’t work. It feels like this is negative everything I’ve done so far.

    • dimwittedroots@rammy.siteEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Does a vpn endpoint redirect a user to a reverse proxy or something? I’ve considered running an authenticated onion service to access some less resource intensive services (gitea, etc)