Just to repeat what you’re already hearing: if I started over from the beginning, I’d skip a NAS entirely and just build a server with a ton of bays (which I just bought). Funny enough, I came here to recommend Fractal Design cases too

Let the record show that irmadlad saved the day here. I learned a lot about what I needed and no longer have to concern myself with something beyond my comprehension

Thank you, that’s really solid advice. It turns out my efforts may have been misguided anyway. I think I was under the impression that “internet exposure” and “Cloudflare tunnel” had similar setups

I thought my VPN didn’t, but they continue to disappoint me. According to the internet, my VPN is using CGNAT

See, this just shows how much I need to learn…I thought what I was trying to set up *was *the same thing as a “Cloudflare tunnel.” Honestly, don’t care how it gets implemented, I just assumed this was the easy way because that’s what all the youtubers were suggesting. My end goal here is “I’m on my phone 100 miles away from home, open Jellyfin/Nextcloud/whatever, use domain.actually.works” without needing to disable my Proton/Air/Mullvad connection.

But I’ve followed 4 or 5 “you won’t believe how easy Nginx is” tutorials, and they’re not working for me…

Ok, this is an extensive answer (thank you), but also a lot to unpack. Before I go making a bridge network, I wanna make sure I’m following you. I’m pretty inexperienced with self-hosting in general outside of Docker, but I’m especially a novice with anything networking so pardon my ignorance here.

Yes, Jellyfin is accessible locally. Performance is the best I’ve ever seen it too. I uninstalled Tailscale on my Ubuntu server (it was causing networking issues, frankly I didn’t understand how) and removed it from my tailnet dashboard, but Jellyfin is still remotely accessible via Tailscale (which is fine, I guess).

At this point, my users and I are trying to avoid Tailscale on mobile devices when possible. Two reasons: 1. prevents maintaining regular VPN usage (deal breaker for a couple people) 2. switching between home wifi and mobile drops connectivity, required turning networking off and on again (deal breaker for me, I got spoiled by Synology’s reverse proxy and can’t go back)

From what I can tell, there’s no CGNAT trickery at play (actually the internet says otherwise). My DNS is a local Pihole+Unbound, in case that matters. The Ubuntu IP is static. Were you requesting the yaml of Jellyfin or Nginx?

And I believe I was hoping to set up a “Cloudflare tunnel.” I think I was under the impression that this “tunnel” *is *a reverse proxy.

Yes, I recently got it working. So LAN connectivity is fine and strangely I can remote access it via Tailscale even though the machine isn’t on a tailnet

The whole reason I bought the domain is because I was told to stop using Tailscale for this purpose. I’m so confused…

That’s where I’m at, dude. I bought into the idea of Proxmox because I was led to believe that it makes docker deployment easier…but I’m thinking it would actually work if I just used a VM

I saved the post because I’ve always been interested in aggregating a RSS feed, but I need ideas for what to subscribe to. Thanks for making the post

Edit: 9 months later, I finally set my RSS feed up…it makes me feel cool, like I run a digital newspaper