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Self hosting lemmy behind CGNAT? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'd like to host lemmy on my LAN and I'd be the only user, no registration open. I would subscribe to communities on other instances and my instance would get the posts and comments. would that work? I don't need it to be accessible from the internet.

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[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is very possible to do this! What you need to do is to rent a low-end cloud VPS. Even a 5.00 digital ocean droplet running Ubuntu Linux would do the trick. Then you run an NGINX Proxy Manager reverse proxy with a WireGuard tunnel to the machine that will act as a server for your instance. From there you, you simply set up Let's Encrypt certificates to use with your intended domain. Even though I am not behind CGNAT, I do this and it works very well.

EDIT: If you intend to do this entirely in open source and need some help, I'll offer it. I am pretty passionate about open source and helping others out along the way.