So far, my self-hosting has been limited to Pi-Hole, and a static website. I now want to try out something new, an **Immich ** server.
I have a static IP from my ISP, so I don’t need to rent out a VPS. However, given that this IS a home internet, I want to be extra sure that it is going to be secure.
In my existing website, I use Fail2Ban + BadBotBlocker + Anubis + Nginx rate limits to protect it from scrapers, bots and malicious users, and it works well. With photos (especially family photos) at stake, I just want to know more on how to protect my server.
Plain wireguard. Or maybe Pangolin?
https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
I use Pangolin reverse proxy with OAuth (PocketID) for family access to services, along with CrowdSec. For the Immich app access which needs to bypass auth login through the reverse proxy, I use ‘link share’ in Pangolin that gives me header tokens that can be entered in to the Immich app under Advanced settings.
I’ve been an Immich user for over 2 years now, so it’s been a journey for me to implement it to this standard.
Or as someone else suggests, try CloudFlare with something like Google Auth login. Just be aware that you are then exposing all your traffic to Cloudflare. I take that as a small sacrifice for simiplicity.