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[Question] Why should I not open ports to the internet on my home router? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml
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I'm in the process of setting up homelab stuff and i've been doing some reading. It seems the consensus is to put everything behind a reverse proxy and use a vpn or cloudflare tunnel.

I plan to use a VPN for accessing my internal network from outside and to protect less battle tested foss software. But I feel like if I cant open a port to the internet to host a webserver then the internet is no longer a free place and we're cooked.

So my question is, Can I expose webserver, SSH, WireGuard to the internet with reasonable safety? What precautions and common mistakes do I need to watchout for.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Problem is many of us are stuck with very low upstream bandwidth due to cable company ISP monopolies and/or data caps or just were running things on a small raspberry pi or something and the malicious requests will create extra expense or flat put denial of service for real traffic.

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