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Rent any low cost vps and setup wireguard tunnel or ssh tunnel to it with port forward, done.
Check https://wiki.gardiol.org/ where I detail my setup which is exactly this.
This page https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=networking%3Aexternal_access is a good starting point
Hey, man... I used to run your LineageOS on Surya until recently. Glad to see you here 😀
Cool! We just released 22.2 for surya ;)
Glad to see you here too!
I use a $2 VPS in Quebec that proxies my home stuff over Tailscale. It uses Caddy and does the TLS encryption and caching. It has the providers DDOS protection, plus I have configured the firewall to have some further protection.
It could also just directly forward TLS packets over any sort of VPN if you didn’t trust the VPS provider or wanted to reduce cpu load.
Look into a VPS + pangolin or headscale Also, check out Crowdsec
Pangolin is amazing and completely replaced cloudflare tunnels for me.
I have a cheap VPS at Infomaniak that handles a boatload of traffic with no issues whatsoever.
Can second Pangolin, switched from cloudflare tunnels to it a couple weeks ago and I am very happy with it. Latest version now supports external OIDC!
Pangolin.
Only complaint is that it uses Traefik instead of Caddy.
It looks very good, and you can use crowdsec with it!
Chisel, Rathole, an SSH tunnel with port forwarding, a VPN with port forwarding.
Keywords are "self hosted tunnel" or "reverse proxy over VPN".
Run a VPS for like $5 a month, your local reverse-proxy tunnels out to the VPS, and your VPS forwards port 80/443 over the tunnel to your reverse-proxy.
ngrok is a straightforward, powerful, and secure option. Check it out! I run it for my k8s cluster at home.
My ASUS WRT router running Merlin firmware offers to host a WireGuard server, I simply use the WireGuard app, dump the config file in and hit connect.
Took a little configuration but eventually got it working how I want it.
Edit: Reason for the Merlin Firmware is because I can route my VPN server through my VPN provider, goes a little like this;
5G/LTE > WireGuard to my router > Router routes that connection to ProtonVPN
This gives me access to the resources in my home while also reaping the benefits of my VPN provider.
I run frp but I also like Pangolin