What is currently the bee's knees method for accessing your home stuff from outside?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/selfhosted

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  • Nebula

    A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

    I run a t4g.nano ec2 ($5/month) instance as a Nebula lighthouse with Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM). My lab hosts run a nebula instance, and I reverse proxy to them over Nebula.

  • Nginx Proxy Manager

    Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

    I run a t4g.nano ec2 ($5/month) instance as a Nebula lighthouse with Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM). My lab hosts run a nebula instance, and I reverse proxy to them over Nebula.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • fasten-onprem

    Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 100,000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics

    Jellyfin isn't the only thing people self-host.

  • wg-easy

    Discontinued The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI. [Moved to: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy] (by WeeJeWel)

    I personally just run a container with https://github.com/WeeJeWel/wg-easy for a GUI. It was like a 2 min setup/configuration.

  • rathole

    A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.

    Very minimalist, but rathole would work if you have a public facing VPS as well => https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

  • awesome-tunneling

    List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.

    Check out this list, it contains everything mentioned in the comments: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

  • netbird

    Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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