So, just as the title says, I wanna know if anyone here uses a proxy as a way to access a private network instead of a VPN.

In my server i just use nginx to reverse proxy through different webapps, and now the time has arrived for nextcloud, now I'm thinking that I'd rather have such services more isolated from the wider web, and I like the simplicity of a proxy login. Though I am skeptical of the user/password model for proxying into a server. Afaik all proxy server logins work within that framework.

So, does anyone do this??

Edit: I know I can find a config wherever in the web, the post is more about experiences or thoughts about using a proxy instead of the common recommendation of a VPN. Thats all. :)

So, I've finally gotten a comfortable setup for my beautiful podman quadlets, its a simple debian system, heavily systemd reliant, and I'm curious about how yall admin such a thing, I've got a couple of scripts to create users, skel the home directories, and templates for services.

I'm particularly curious about handling subids, I'm pretty careful about them and not using too too many, mostly for being afraid of running out of them lol. But from what I've seen, linux allows you to go real stupid with it, like having a shitton of range and entrances.

I personally give my quad users like 500 subids to work with and they generally work fine, it really depends on if I'm gonna have more than one service running on them or not.