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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
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