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  • I’d say, what kind of security are you talking about? Apart from standard HTTPS to keep things encrypted, there are other layers if you want to keep your service exposed to the internet.

    Also how things are installed and if they are correct, proper file permissions. nothing different than having it on the server somewhere. You just need to keep thing up to date and you’ll be fine.






  • I’m running both, via docker.

    Here’s the basic setup:

    NGiNX is standard installation, using certbot to manage the SSL certificates for the domains. Setup is via Nginx virtual hosts (servers), separate for Lemmy and Mastodon. Lemmy and Mastodon run each in their Docker containers, with different listning ports on localhost.

                      lemmy.domain.tld+------------------------+
                   +------------------+                        |
                   |                  |         Lemmy          |
                   |                  |         127.0.0.1:3000 |
                   |                  +------------------------+
                   |
    +--------------+----+
    |NGiNX with SSL     |   mastodon.domain.tld
    |and separate VHOSTS+--------------+-----------------------+
    |                   |              |          Mastodon     |
    +-------------------+              |          127.0.0.1:3001
                                       +------------------------
    
    

  • Best option is to directly NAT traffic from VPS to your home server, either directly to your IP or set up a wireguard peer and send traffic via wireguard to your local and do the SSL/TLS termination on your local.

    You are best exposing just 443 port on the VPS and moving that traffic over wireguard. Server will have your local public key on the server, and you could implement a wireguard key rotation to change them frequently.

    Traffic sent back will be encrypted with the certificate, and even if they get the wireguard server key, you can rotate it, but still they will see encrypted packets.

    It depends what kind of things you’re doing on your local. If it is just a website thing, then reverse proxy is fine. Anything other than that, NAT would be cleanest one.

    LUKS on the disks would encrypt it the data on the block storage level, and, in theory, they should not have a way of reding block storage files directly. But since it is a VPS they can, technically, gather data from host memory.

    Next step might be going down a dedi server route, Luks encryption on disks. Only thing thats needed there would be sufficient network pipe.