Looking for feedback on simplifying self hosting - eviltoast

Hi all,

I started self hosting nextcloud only. Now I have a domain name and I would like to selfhost more services and websites on subdomains without having to open up more ports on my router.

  1. Is it reasonable to use a reverse proxy server to avoid opening up more ports?
  2. Can I use a reverse proxy manager that simplifies SSL certs, etc?
  3. Can I put the HTTP/HTTPS services behind a reverse proxy, behind a free cloudflare DNS proxy to mask my IP address?
  4. And put other non-http services on the real IP address.
  5. Will all of this be more prone to failure and slow compared to forwarding 443 and 80 directly to my nextcloud server?

The other services I would like to eventually host and have accessible externally are

  • Jitsi
  • Mastodon instance (hoping to make some bots that mirror other social media to bring them into Mastodon)
  • blog website
  • Veilid maybe
  • OpenVPN over TCP on 443 (to get through restrictive firewalls on e.g. school wifi networks that don’t whitelist domains)
  • Synology to Synology backup.

I’m hoping to use Yunohost on a RPI to simplify hosting a lot of these things.

Here’s my plan where I’m looking for feedback. Am I missing any steps? Are my assumptions correct?

  1. Install reverse proxy on yunohost; configure cloudflare DNS and freedns.afraid.org to point towards the reverse DNS server.
  2. Configure the reverse DNS to redirect various subdomains to
  • the raspberry pi running nextcloud
  • the other raspberry pi running openvpn
  • the Synology running the backup service
  • services running on the yunohost raspberry pi

I have not been able to find good documentation about how to configure the yunohost reverse proxy, or how to deal with HTTP headers, or have correct certificates on all the subdomains as well as the reverse proxy. Looking for advice on how to move forward and or simply this setup.

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    In an ideal world I’d host on an Intel nuc or similar, but for the time being a raspberry pi 4 is all I can afford.

    I think you’re right, it was running out of ram before. It hasn’t done that since I’ve moved to nextcloudpi, thankfully.

    I have a separate raspi 4 with yunohost that was slated for other experimental purposes, like Jitsi, but I’m still early in that process.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Obviously you can’t help it now but going forward old enterprise machines on eBay tend to be a better deal. About the same cost but better performance and upgradability.

      The downside is that you are dealing with older hardware which could have problems if it is really beat up

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Thanks for the recommendation! Are there eBay search terms I should know? Used PC workstation?