Hi, I recently acquired a pretty solid VPS for a good price, and right now I use it to run Caddy for two personal sites. When I moved to Lemmy I found about this awesome community and it got me really interested in selfhosting. I won’t be asking for tips on what to selfhost (but feel free to add what you use), there’s a lot of posts about it to look through, but I was wondering: how are you accessing your selfhosted stuff? I would love to have some sort of dashboard with monitoring and statuses of all my services, so should I just setup WireGuard and then access everything locally? I wanted to have it behind a domain, how would I achieve it? E.g. my public site would be at example.com and my dashboard behind dash.example.com, but only accessible locally through a VPN.
I started to learn Docker when setting up my Caddy server, so I’m still really new to this stuff. Are there any major no-no things a newbie might do with Docker/selfhosting that I should avoid?
I’m really looking forward to setting everything up once I have it planned out, that’s the most fun part for me, the troubleshooting and fixing all the small errors and stuff. So, thank you for your help and ideas, I can share my setup when it’s done.
Don’t expose anything from your local network to the internet (unless you want multiple new sysadmins in your house). Try tailscale instead.
Technically any connection made from inside your local network can expose it to the outside world for someone outside. Browsing web, some nasty js and here you go.
I personally have some stuff hosted on my home hardware, cant share details obviously, but even the ip address of those services is not my home ip address. Also extensive use of rootless containers and other cool stuff is making me want to keep things like that.
The difference is that you need way more interaction. Expose a webserver on the internet and check how many requests you get from just bots.
You can control what you navigate and how to interact with the outside world, but you can’t control how the outside world will interact with your services.