Post #764952
2026-03-24 14:29 UTC
Replies (10)
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@sexybenfranklin@smores.town 2026-03-24 19:22
A lot of great replies, probably too many for me to thank individually, but thank you. I essentially want a system that's easy for me to share stuff with my mom or my friends, like "Hey mom, install Jellyfin on your apple TV and go to jellyfin.mydomain.com, I created an account for you" or "Hey, gaming group, here's my entire TTRPG library on PDF, have at it." I think, based on what people have said, my best option is a reverse proxy on a VPS so I don't expose my home IP.
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@ryan@dads.cool 2026-03-24 14:38
@sexybenfranklin generally, i use tailscale as my easy way to get into my home network from outside it. for services, it depends on the service. like immich for example i use but don’t even put on the real internet because i’m not interested in using the sharing features yet, so i can just hop on my tailscale VPN if i want to use it outside the network. generally though if you want to expose a service you’re going to need to port map it at your router and/or reverse proxy it
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@timmy@goblin.camp 2026-03-24 14:39
@sexybenfranklin jellyfin was pretty painless to set up with a dynamic dns client so i could reach it at a url i bought. It has multi-user support but i haven’t tried sharing with others because i have no friends that want to watch rollerball (2002)
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@leo@60228.dev 2026-03-24 14:40
@sexybenfranklin depending on the security model either tailscale or just, like, having it be world accessible at&t is nice about that (it's symmetric and low-latency, they don't care if you host things on a residential connection, they'll route you a static block for a monthly fee but the dhcp address basically never changes)
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@haskal@types.pl 2026-03-24 14:42
@sexybenfranklin i have a VPS which routes traffic into a VPN link to my hardware
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@bruce@darkmoon.social 2026-03-24 14:46
@sexybenfranklin I use a wireguard VPN on my home network and expose my nextcloud server via a nginx reverse proxy hosted on Linode. This would work for most other services including jellyfin. Otherwise, you could open a port in your router/firewall, as already suggested.
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@heartles@egirls.gay 2026-03-24 15:09
@sexybenfranklin@smores.town i have a hole punched in the home routers firewall and i have a reverse proxy on the same vps that hosts this server that proxies through it, i just set it up to host on a subdomain
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@josh0@babka.social 2026-03-24 15:43
@sexybenfranklin @Binder Tailscale makes it really easy to manage a WireGuard based VPN network that you can easily invite people to join. I don’t have a lot of experience with the user management side of things, but it makes it dead simple to access things remotely.
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@Z@jorts.horse 2026-03-24 16:27
@sexybenfranklin *way too close to the mic so there's feedback* tailscale
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@BestGirlGrace@social.illegalpornography.com 2026-03-24 18:41
@sexybenfranklin for stuff that's just for me, I run tailscale. i should move to nebula at some point. for stuff i'm sharing with other people, i either open my home firewall and forward a port or tunnel to a cheap $5/mo VPS.