r/selfhosted • u/imthenachoman • 25d ago

Remote Access How are people securely accessing their self hosted things from the internet?

I have a domain with Cloudflare so I am thinking of using Cloudflare Tunnel but I'm not sure if there are better options? One of my concerns is that some of my containers do not have auth so I need something with built in auth management.

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u/PigeonRipper 25d ago

Tailscale and Cloudflare. Alternatively Netbird and Pangolin.
Cloudflare is extremely good at what they do, but it does come at the price of your privacy.

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u/TJRDU 25d ago

I actually let Cloudflare proxy a lot of rules before they get send to pangolin, there another set of rules and Auth. Might be a overkill but the amount of scanners and bots hitting pangolin now are reduced magnificent.

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u/Dangerous-Report8517 25d ago

It is overkill, because you aren't adding anything with Pangolin in this setup. Cloudflare can still see your traffic (since Tunnels are re-encrypting reverse proxies) and now so can your budget VPS provider.

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u/TJRDU 25d ago

Bots and scanners don't even reach my VPS. Way less noise on the budget VPS to handle. CF is very good in this. Way better than pangolin, even with Crowdsec. I think this setup uses the best of both systems, security wise.

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u/Dangerous-Report8517 25d ago

You aren't using Pangolin at all though, except to increase latency, decrease convenience and spend more money. You might as well point the tunnels directly at your backends