Hi everyone, first time posting since the Reddit went nuclear on sanity. With the advent of Lemmy, I finally got around to booting my home-server back up and stood up my own instance :)
How do you all self host stuff? I’ve been happily running Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Plex, etc locally, but none of that has been internet facing. As I’m getting back into this I want to share stuff with my friends and family and getting them all to use a VPN seems like a stretch.
Wondering if the general consensus is that it’s better to put shit on a VPS, on your own HW locally (with firewalls, safeguards, etc) or some combo of the two?
I have both a Hetzner root server (it’s nicely beefy) where I host all my public stuff (website, api’s, Lemmy instance etc) and my homelab which is more personal media (Plex, 'arrs, Gitlab, wireguard, dydns)
The Hetzner box is configured using NixOS (config).
Homelab is mostly configured with docker compose, though I have plans to switch over to nixos to nail down the config. I am using cloudflare for my dns and created a smol cli tool to update a record there with my public ip address (homemade dydns). This is used by Wireguard to give me access to everything hosted there. Even though everything is hidden away from the Internet I still have https on everything thanks to dns verification.
(hastially typed up over breakfast so it may be a tad disorganised, feel free to ask any question if ye have any)