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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Hakunin_Fallout on 2025-02-08 20:00:33+00:00.
Hey all,
Looking to secure my setup, so I just wanted to gather some opinions to better understand your choices.
My current setup has, well, no security, but thanks to the previous thread I've posted here I've gathered some great recommendations. I'm now looking into getting Pangolin+Crowdsec up and running.
The questions that I have are these:
- I travel a lot. What is the 'easiest' method for me to enable access to all the self-hosted goodies? Is it Tailscale or Pangolin or something else? Right now, the only thing I have against Tailscale is that I'm essentially outsourcing my security. If their servers go down - my access is down too, as I understand it. With self-hosted Pangolin - that doesn't seem to be an issue.
- I have a family - I want them to be able to access all the stuff in our network easily without any specific tech knowledge. E.g., I set up it once for them - and they have normal access to Hoarder/Vaultwarden/Plex/Immich/Audiobookshelf/etc.
- Do I understand this correctly that Pangolin will route all my traffic through my VPS, so, if I'm going to watch 4k movies from abroad - I can probably hit my monthly quota with the VPS provider? Does VPS performance play any role here at all?
- Do I need anything else other than closing ports and running Cowdsec/Fail2ban? Any 'honeypots' you're running on any ports, or some other solution that makes sure somebody not careful enough gets immediately blacklisted?
- Do I need any auth solutions on top of the above?
Thanks!