Router Port vs VPS Reverse Proxy (lemmy.primboard.de)

submitted 3 years ago by mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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„Inspired“ from https://lemmy.world/post/287146 and many related questions (also on reddit before).

Why don‘t people like opening Port 443 on their Homerouter? An open Port itself is not a vulnerability because nothing is listening on it, therefore there cannot be any connection established. When forwarding Port 443 From Router to e.g. The Homeservers LoadBalancer / Proxy, this Proxy is the final resolver anyways.

So why doing the more complex and more error prone Route via the VPS / Tailscale / CloudFlare?

I did that some years ago too, but just because i did not have an static IPv4 at home. But speeds were awful and i switched to Routerport + DynDNS and now everything is super performant.

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[-] Edo78@feddit.it 1 points 3 years ago

and, even if you scan them, how do you know that a port knocker isn't there waiting to the secret knock?

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