I do it the good old fashioned way, with a reverse ssh tunnel from VPS to home. An added benefit is that SSL is terminated only at the very end, so the VPS provider is just a dumb pipe.

The problem is, since the reverse proxy and authentication system face the internet, you are responsible for maintaining its security.

Software has vulnerabilities. Like nginx proxy manager had vulnerabilities and the developer didn’t patch some.

With a cloud based proxy, a third party handles authentication. But then, they shouldn’t access data.

For purely personal stuff which I only access from my devices, I use SSL client certificates in front of normal auth. The rest of services are mostly public anyway.

I have a similar setup with Tailscale and Nginx Proxy Manager.

"Using a CF Tunnel implies that all SSL encrypted connections will be decrypted by Cloudflare, the connections data exists on their servers in plain text and then is re-encrypted for the transport to the user."

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/133rr6n/about_c...

Is that true? Then third party doctrine would apply and you have to trust them more right?

I don’t believe any proxy could route traffic dynamically the way cf tunnels (and traefik for that matter) do without being able to read the unencrypted http requests. That’s a trade off I’m making and aware of, because I don’t want to use a VPN to access my services. (Another big trade off is cf only tunnels HTTP traffic, so I can’t use SSH keys to reach my self hosted gitea repos. Honestly that’s a bigger motivator to me to find another solution)

>If I wanted to, I could run _everything_ through Authelia first, so you wouldn’t even see the 404 until you log into an account

I'm actually considering this right at the moment. The idea of enforced 2FA just feels a lot safer to me

It’s a great product, but unfortunately they terminate the TLS and scan the traffic. It’s same as hosting the data on google or Microsoft (except you pay for hardware also). It should not be considered self hosted.

Is there a reverse proxy where the client makes a TLS connection to the proxy, proves their identity, if successful is allowed by proxy to initiate a new TLS connection to the server at home with the certificate of that server?