| ▲ | retrofuturism 6 hours ago | |
I'm running a Raspberry Pi 5 at home as a lightweight web server. I put it behind `cloudflared` as to not leak my home IP address, and today I got to pay for it. Should I just stop being paranoid about "leaking my IP address" and self-host it 100%? All I fear is that my family will have to live with degraded internet experience because some script kiddie targeted me for fun. | ||
| ▲ | forbiddenlake 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
You have other options besides leaking your home IP. You could use a VPN like Wireguard or a WG product like Tailscale, which is what I do. My Tailnet IPs are in public DNS, too, because it doesn't matter, they're not routable publicly. You could also get a cheap VPS in The Cloud and proxy requests to your home. | ||
| ▲ | JodieBenitez 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> I'm running a Raspberry Pi 5 at home Same here for years (Pi 4) but without the cloudflare part. It's been painless. | ||
| ▲ | Gracana 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You could set up your own proxy. It doesn't have to be anything complicated, just a VPS with nginx forwarding requests to your servers on a VPN. | ||