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[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you set up port forwarding for file shares you must keep setting it up again for every new service.

If you set up a VPN once then you're simply done. Every new service you set up is available directly.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ZeroTier can be a fully self hosted VPN. You set up a server locally, port forward only the VPN service, and then everything else you run is accessible through it for the people you give access to.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who knows what else it does with that secret code.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

They're are multiple open source options like n2n