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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/my_name_is_ross on 2025-07-30 16:48:03+00:00.

I’m lucky that I’m not on a cgnat, and I have a static ip.

My lab is a three server proxmox cluster, and I’m using a unfi fibre router.

I’ve used cloudflare tunnels to expose the few public software I was running but I’ve switched to pangolin on a vps but it got me thinking why don’t I just run it locally?

I understand I’m exposing my public ip (unless I proxy it via cloudflare) but is that really a concern?

I have set pangolin up with a bouncer for traefik and I could easily setup one for UniFi too.

So, should I host pangolin locally and not bother with the newt part or am I missing some other benefit of hosting it on a VPS?