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I'm doing it wrong. How do I correct this? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by DSPGerm@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I currently have a server that I use for plex, torrents, kodi, smb, etc. Pretty much everything runs in docker. My router offers a dynamic dns service but I'd like to migrate away from it in case I ever get a different router.

The way it currently works, when I spin up a new service or docker container I go into the router and go to NAT Forwarding -> Virtual Servers and put in the external port and internal IP/Port. I don't know of any other port forwarding settings on my router.

I'm concerned about the security of my setup because at present I don't have SSL on any of my services. I also am concerned that this machine is pretty much directly exposed to the internet. What is the best way to migrate this to a more router-neutral config that's more secure?

Do I use Traefik? Nginx Proxy Manager? Authentik? A different dynamic DNS? Cloudflare tunnels? Getting everything up and running with docker was a challenge when I started but I feel pretty comfortable with it now. This part with the networking and security is what I'm still struggling with. Appreciate your help

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[โ€“] Professional-Swim-69@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great write up, I don't disagree with you at all. But OP could be streaming and CF could potentially ban him/her right?

[โ€“] Jwiggins0123456789@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Completely true.... you should attempt to do streaming over the Cloudflare solution as you will get banned. I would also guess performance might not be great since again the bottleneck is the Cloudflared/Cloudflared container on your network sending and allowing all the data to and from Cloudflare. Fine and dandy for normal work but I would think streaming media and even trying to do something like high end remote video editing is not going to fair well over it unless you give that a lot of good resources and that device itself has a really good network adapter connected to a good switch.

I mean you will still have a bottleneck local hosting and streaming through your reverse proxy anyways since it goes through the SSL encrypted hosted site and if it is Plex it is totally pointless to do other than for hiding purposes like your server is cloud hosted. You are essentially SSL encrypting the SSL encrypted traffic. You might as well add an additional Wireguard VPN around all of it and then attempt to stream something and watch it all buffer and come back and ask everyone for help.