As I start to host more and more services on my home server, my family and friends are interested in using some of the services I host as well. Up to now, all of my services have been internal-only, and my wife and I just use Tailscale to access everything. Getting others set up with tailscale isn’t an issue, but I can only have up to 4 other users before I have to pay to add more, and I have more than 4 people I would like to have access to some of the things I host.

Right now I’m using cloudflare tunnels to make some services available externally. I’m behind CGNAT, so I’m forced to use something like tunnels or similar. I’ve always read that if you are going to open things up externally to use a reverse proxy (which I use internally), but does this still apply with cloudflare tunnels? What else should I be looking at to make sure I have everything secured properly?

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago

@WASTECH Honestly I am not aware of any cloud mesh VPN that offers more than 6 or so users on the free tier.I think if you really do not want to spend money, your best bet is hosting something like headscale or netbird on your local and exposing it via a Tunnel like cloudflared or something similar.Alt. you could pay for a very cheap VPS and host headscale or netbird on there but unsure how much data you intend on transmitting.

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