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  • I’ve been preferring mTLS recently. I still use a VPN for management, SMB/NFS, and anything important. But I use mTLS for web services that I’d like to access without having a VPN active all the time. Although, if your web service had a mobile app, usually they don’t play nicely with mTLS, so a VPN would be required for me, but Home Assistant and TrilliumDroid do have mTLS support.




  • Haha I love how this has progressed, from ‘What free VPS?’ then ‘Free VPS doesn’t work’ and now we’re at ‘What can I do without a VPS?’.

    Anyway, I was self hosting from home well before I started playing with VPSs, so it’s a good way to get started before having to spend money. And I still self host most of my infrastructure just because I prefer upfront costs to subscriptions.




  • SteveTech@aussie.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldRate limiting
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    2 months ago

    Nginx also has support for rate limiting built in.

    On the topic of blocking, I block useragents starting with Mozilla/5.0 that are using HTTP/1.X, since all modern browsers default to HTTP/2.0 and anything else is usually always bad bots. You can also return 426 with the Upgrade: h2c header to let some older browsers know to use HTTP/2.0.


  • Probably not what you’re looking for, but when I had a somewhat unstable internet connection, I’d just self host for myself as much as possible to reduce my reliance on the internet. I ran lancache to cache as many updates I could. I’d download kiwix archives at university and host them at home. I had ripped hundreds of DVDs for Jellyfin and I’d even sometimes record shows off of free to air TV with TVHeadEnd. I also self hosted languagetool (a Grammarly alternative). Although, I still do all that (and probably more) with stable gigabit fibre (except I no longer saw any point in lancache).