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Hi everyone, welcome back

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So today we're going to try something a little bit different

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We're gonna start a new video series

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about all the different ways to expose or access our homelab

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from the internet

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The reason is mainly because there's tons of options out there.

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and i feel like it's not talked enough about on YouTube

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Especially the security part

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which is most important

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almost everyone just assumes it's secure which isn't always the case

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so make sure to hit the like button

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subscribe

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and let's get started

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okay so how to do it

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to expose our homelab there are five main ways

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1. Secure Tunnels like Cloudflare

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2. Reverse proxies like Nginx

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3. Traditional VPNs like Wireguard or OpenVPN

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4. Mesh VPNs like ZeroTrust and Tailscale

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and lastly the old classic port forwarding or NAT

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So let's break down each one of them quickly to understand the differences

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first secure tunnels like Cloudflare

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This is often defined as secure tunnels to access your app without exposing your IP address

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making remote access easy

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it's also fairly easy to setup

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however, by default it's not secured enough

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and solely reling on your app security

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but this can be improved

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we'll cover this later in another video

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next reverse proxies

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like nginx

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it's a server that sits in the middle and forward requests to your homelab

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helping you manage multiple services under one domain

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while adding another layer of protection