Hey everyone,
I’m one of the people who still used proton and am now in the process of switching everything and trying to selfhost more.
I sucessfully setup Vaultwarden. I also decided I should move away from having my dockers publicly exposed with nginx reverse proxy and switched everything over to netbird. Im using their proxy feature now to access everything with custom domains and followed a tutorial to setup a bring your own proxy server on a vps. So now all my services are only accessible when my netbird vpn is active. I also spun up a pihole docker and added that to my netbird dns servers to try and get ad blocking on my mobile devices. So far so good.
I wonder however that while some webui’s like vaultwarden run with https, others like radarr dont. Is this a problem or does it not matter so much since i have the vpn running?
I dont really understand how I would go about making them https though. Im on unraid for my dockers and don’t see why some use https and others don’t.
Sorry if this is a convoluted post, I’m quite in over my head with all the networking and dns stuff and just hoping I’m not doing something stupid.
Thanks for your help!
All you need is a DNS name. You can buy one for a few dollars.
Even if you refuse to buy a domain you could always run your own certificate chain
That sounds interesting. But then you have to convince your peers to install your certificate root, right?
No, you would only use this internally. Overall doing this is a bad idea (if the root gets stolen encryption is useless) but is technically possible if you are looking for a learning exercise. It would be about the same amount of work as Let’s encrypt since you would probably still want to run ACME with fairly short certificate lifetimes.