bergetfew

Part of the reason why they left so many details vague was to give me some freedom on what to setup in the server based on what I think is right, although I do agree there needs to be clarification for some points.

Could you give me a hint on what I should additionally ask regarding their server needs?

Could you suggest what would be the most appropriate backup solution in this case? I could also ask them to arrange a backup drive or a cloud provider if needed.

I was told the some team members work in different universities, so we would need to accommodate them as well

Sorry if I am unable to provide specific details for the queries. I don't have answers to most of them myself which is why I was hoping what the safest bet for these situations would be to implement.

1. Highly likely they would be installing new software

2. I don't know much about its use case, although it won't be too intensive since they probably have a separate machine for heavier work.

3. Backup storage option wasn't proposed at all. I'm thinking of proposing to implement one.

4. I expect between 10-20 users.

5. User permissions requirements wasn't discussed as well, although I wouldn't expect there to be any need to grant everyone admin privileges

6. Don't know about the criticality of data. I could only speculate to be considerable by default.

The server should be no problem to the university as long as it's set up to do what I was told it would do.

Is it okay to use macOS too? I thought Linux was more prevalent among servers. Although if there is no significant change in operating one compared to Linux, then I'll just stick to macOS after all.

Thanks a ton!

I would never have found this on my own otherwise. I feel any amount of gratitude would fall short of compensating for how much time and effort it has saved me. Thank you regardless.

If possible, can you share how I can achieve the same effect with SFTP?

I've set up Pangolin on my VPS and had no problems accessing docker services on my homelab remotely. However, I don't know how I am supposed to SSH or SFTP to my homelab. Will I connect to my VPS instead? Would I need to break Pangolin or expose a vulnerability to do so?

Honestly I am in need of a proper networking tutorial at this point.

Thank you for your assist. I found the underlying issue to be with the DNS from the domain provider. I switched to Cloudflare DNS and now it works flawlessly.

I've gone through their automatic setup and followed the youtube tutorial from Lawrence Systems. I entered all the required information for the setup correctly (apart from the email maybe). The tutor got his dashboard page hosted with https properly enabled with no additional configuration and I expected mine to work the same. I've tried to regenerate the certificates according to the official docs, but I still get the same result. I honestly don't know where else the problem could've arised. As much as I hate it, I think I'll have to go through the logs after all.

This actually worked! I've disabled the 'Block connection without VPN' and 'Always-on VPN' options and my phone is finally able to access other devices.

I've never tried this approach before as my computers were able to connect to each other even with kill switch enabled on both of them, making me assume the problem didn't lie here, but you proved me otherwise.

I'm somewhat hesitant to leave the configuration like this, but I guess it's worth it given the circumstances. Thank you very much for your advice!

Split tunneling is only available for paid plans. Free tier users can only choose between having their entire traffic go through the VPN or none at all.

I don't mind being without split tunneling. My grudge lies in not being able to access other computers and their services on the same network.