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Hello all! I've been getting into self-hosting stuff and ran into an issue with port forwarding my services to the internet. I don't have access to my router's config (provided by ISP), so I researched tunnels and there is ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel and other more well-known reverse proxy services, but I also stumbled upon loophole.cloud. I can't find more information about it except a few Reddit comments here and there. Has anyone here actually used it and can say a few words about it?

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[โ€“] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Use tailscale and keep your services behind the VPN. Opening up your services, even behind a tunnel, isn't a thing you should get into early in your self-hosting journey.

[โ€“] uzay@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

This. There's plenty of stuff that can go wrong just exposing your stuff to the open internet.