Hello comrades! In light of the fucked up state of the UK govt I’m looking at some VPN options to further harden my homelab.

Right now, I have zero VPN coverage for my seedbox/jellyfin server which of course means a major security hole, even if my ISP hasn’t shit over me for it yet.

I had a few questions about selfhosting a VPN versus a third party service.

  1. How does a self hosted VPN actually do anything? I was under the impression that VPNs had to be off-site to give the benefits of, say, location spoofing.

  2. Do I need to pay any subscriptions to other services for a self hosted VPN? At least in order to access features such as location spoofing.

  3. We use Cloudflare WARP at work to access internal services. Will a LAN-VPN Fuck this up even if I explicitly avoid spoofing my location to ensure my IT guy doesnt shit a brick?

thanks cumrades!

  • TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    24 days ago

    You could use tailscale and sign up for a mullvad exit node in a foreign country for $5 a month.

    Or if your seedbox/jellyfin server is outside the country you can set up tailscale on it and use it as an exit node and route everything through that.

    Cloudflare WARP and a VPN might have issues working together.