Click the “Access” icon and enable Cloudflare Access on your account. Once that’s done, you need to go and configure Cloudflare Access.
We are placing a lot of trust in Cloudflare’s systems being secure.)Īt the time of this writing, Cloudflare Access is free for up to 5 user accounts, and then is $5/user/month after that. (Worth saying that the single vulnerability point here is Cloudflare. I have mine locked down to just my email address and my partners email address.
I want a certain hostname to map directly to a running service on Unraid. The first thing on the list is domain mapping. I wanted to make sure I could still log in to the server via SSH remotely, just in case. I wanted an easy way to bypass these restrictions on my local network. I wanted any anonymous connection to be simply impossible. say Paperless' login process had a 0-day vulnerbility that allowed anyone to bypass the login, I wanted to be immune to that sort of bug. I wanted a way to totally lock-down access to the running services until I was authorised. I wanted to access services I run on my home server with an easy to remember domain name. Imagine I wanted to hop on to my Paperless site to fetch a document on my phone – how annoying would it be to have to connect to a VPN first. One of the more common ways is to use a VPN to restrict access to the server. There are a number of ways you could solve this problem. What if there was a 0-day with Unraid or an app that I was using? I’m planning on putting a lot of data on this server, some of which is going to be highly personal, and I really really don’t want to have to worry about security issues that might lead to data leaks.
This isn’t a problem per-se, but I was really not into the idea of having the server open to the internet. But this presents a problem: if I wanted to access my data from outside my home network, then I had to open up access to the server from the wider internet. The entire purpose behind building my home server was so I could take control over my data and rely less on cloud services.
Out of the options I tried, Unraid was by far the easiest to get up and running with. If you’re building a home server, I really recommend checking it out. I chose Unraid as the underlying operating system. I’m trying to make a more concerted effort to take control over my own data and rely less on cloud services. I built a home server earlier this year to serve as a NAS and home media center.