Hey all,
I’m setting up a homeserver and trying to figure out the best way to access it remotely. I’ve been looking at different solutions, but I’m a little stuck.
I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP when I’m also trying to use a commercial VPN for privacy / to combat services fingerprinting me based on my IP.
I’m currently considering a reverse proxy setup with an authentication provider like authentik or authelia, but as far as I understand, that wouldn’t work well with accessing services through an app on my mobile device (like for jellyfin music for example.) I did think about just opening up the ports and using a DDNS with a reverse proxy, but is’nt that like a big security risk?
Keep in mind I am no network admin, but I don’t have anything against learning if someone can point me in the right direction.
Also I heard some people say that on proxmox you should use unprivileged containers instead of vms for your services, does that hold up?
Any recommendations for tools or approaches?


My ASUS WRT router (running Merlin Firmware) forwards my Home VPN serve through one of my Proton VPN clients, I get all the added bonuses of being connected to my home network while benefiting from appearing across the world.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but removing the login form via CSS is just a cosmetic effect and it doesn’t have any effect on your security, since bots will try to brute force the login directly using the login endpoint.
Oh I am fully aware, that’s kinda why I added the line:
In my original comment, hence why I also suggest just outright blacklist all IP’s and whitelisting the known few.