Hi everyone, first time posting since the Reddit went nuclear on sanity. With the advent of Lemmy, I finally got around to booting my home-server back up and stood up my own instance :)
How do you all self host stuff? I’ve been happily running Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Plex, etc locally, but none of that has been internet facing. As I’m getting back into this I want to share stuff with my friends and family and getting them all to use a VPN seems like a stretch.
Wondering if the general consensus is that it’s better to put shit on a VPS, on your own HW locally (with firewalls, safeguards, etc) or some combo of the two?
None of my stuff is internet facing either, and it never will be. VPS for sure if you want to serve others, but becareful with the VPS (don’t reuse passwords/keys/usernames, treat it like it will be hacked at some point, etc.)
I’ve got a lot of local services that are just for me. I don’t share them with anyone outside of my local network, not even over a VPN.