DODECA
AAdmincraft
•Created by DODECA on 2/23/2025 in #questions
Struggling with a reverse proxy
So, I've been setting up something to allow me to use nginx, openvpn, and a EC2 to have a remote proxy, mostly for the sake of hiding my actual IP address and security.
The setup is as so:
user -> [internet] -> AWS EC2 -> [OpenVPN] -> on_premises
The setup I expect to work is basically, allowing inbound/outbound on 25565 and additionally openvpns required ports.
(The issue is the proxy doesnt work unless the ip address is EXPLICITLY stated in the Network ACL of the VPC bound to the EC2, for some unknown reason)
Basically at this point, im very prepared to rip everything out and start from scratch due to how long this is taking to get working, so, any sollutions or alternative ways to host with a reverse proxy in place?59 replies
AAdmincraft
•Created by DODECA on 2/10/2025 in #questions
Questions about what Operating System to host on
I'm getting into moving all of my hosting stuff away from Pebblehost and into my own place, and amongst dealing with all of the security nonsense and having to do write-ups on how im managing things so future me can remember, I'm just wondering, what are people hosting their servers on?
I know everyone says linux, due to the fact that it doesn't have alot running in the background and saves alot of overhead for the actual server, but whats stopping me from using something like windows server or a particular distro of linux over another?
With all honesty, doing everything on linux isn't the worst but Windows is just, flat out my strongsuit, I know everything I've got to do on windows, and flat out just prefer there being a GUI for everything over having to struggle to remember a command when it REALLY matters)
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AAdmincraft
•Created by DODECA on 1/6/2025 in #questions
Handling SRV records
So im working on doing SRV records for my server so I can just have an IP, without a port at the end, and as far as I understand it's not too complicated at all, but I'm still pretty confused as it doesnt work, heres the current setup for it, any help is useful!
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