Hi everyone, welcome back

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

We're gonna start a new video series

about all the different ways to expose or access our homelab

from the internet

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

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

Especially the security part

which is most important

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

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okay so how to do it

to expose our homelab there are five main ways

1. Secure Tunnels like Cloudflare

2. Reverse proxies like Nginx

3. Traditional VPNs like Wireguard or OpenVPN

4. Mesh VPNs like ZeroTrust and Tailscale

and lastly the old classic port forwarding or NAT

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

first secure tunnels like Cloudflare

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

making remote access easy

it's also fairly easy to setup

however, by default it's not secured enough

and solely reling on your app security

but this can be improved

we'll cover this later in another video

next reverse proxies

like nginx

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

helping you manage multiple services under one domain

while adding another layer of protection