Hey! Sorry for the repeating question, I have a very specific question though.

For context, I access my services using a vpn, and that’s been great. However, I’ve been a lot of people mentioning reverse proxies. Are they necessary or more of a convenience thing? I ask because I don’t see something that I cannot do with my current vpn setup.

Thanks!

  • nyrosis@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s convenient for some services like jellyfin that have a companion app. It’s much easier to just point the app to a domain name you control to get everything working without vpn. The certificate support is nice too.

    Say for instance you have a family member that you know won’t be taking the time to setup vpn configs to access this device. It’s easy to just say here is the link the app is asking for and here is your username/password.