BunkerWeb VS Squid

Keep in mind that integrating a WAF can render certain apps not working if the security configuration is set too paranoid. There are a lot of examples for apps that might be affected, though.

Its documentation is nice as well. You can also find them on Discord and the GitHub repo is also pretty clean and have many example configurations there.

This also effectively allows your killswitch to be Nginx on the VPS while still allowing local network traffic at home. You can take it a step further and geoblock countries and more with https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerweb.

I know you asked about Nginx vs Caddy but to throw another one into the mix have a look at BunkerWeb. I only started using it within the last couple of months but it's based on Nginx with a tonne of usability and security improvements. I now use BunkerWeb to expose services externally and Traefik internally.

Creating a new discussion here doesn't seem to be an option (doesn't allow me to do so) so I came here.

There's also a security optimized NGINX image called BunkerWeb. It has a WAF builtin and an optional web interface.

Right now I'm doing a similar setup but I want to use NGINX with integrated WAF.

Bunkerised nginx comes me in mind here https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerized-nginx

> But I’m working on setting up a VPN at my house to tunnel all Netflix traffic through ...

On a technical point, you might be able to get away with just using Squid for the proxy, with pretty much default settings.

http://www.squid-cache.org

I used to use that years ago (not with Netflix though) running from a data centre, using an ssh (autossh) tunnel to reach it securely.

Worked pretty well, aside from the extra latency due to the packets having to go an extra half way around the world. ;)

I recommend trying a transparent proxy like Squid. There are many analytics tools for Squid logs. Squid can generate TLS certificates on the fly to inspect secure websites but you'll have to generate and install a CA certificate and key into Squid. You'll also have to import the CA certificate on any machine accessing the internet through the Squid proxy. Squid has the added bonus of caching content to speed up web browsing and reduce data usage.

I “invented” IPFS when I though “wouldn’t it be nice if we could combine Squid-Cache with BackupPC

A couple of dedicated server-side resource caching solutions have emerged over the years: Memcached, Varnish, Squid, etc. Other solutions are less focused on web resource caching and more generic, e.g., Redis or Hazelcast.

Web caching (more techical, probably not useful) there squid-cache

Also, the fact it is distributed by HTTP allow companies (and ISPs) to cache content in Squid servers (http://www.squid-cache.org/). And this is quite a feature!

If your router is compatible with custom firmware (Tomato or DD-WRT) you can flash it and use the logging features of those platforms. Otherwise no there isn't really an "app or software" that can do this, you need a piece of hardware that sits between the LAN devices and the internet connection. That can be a full-fledged computer, if you're willing to use it as firewall or router (pfSense), DNS server (PowerDNS) or proxy server (Squid).