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Setting up a Home Gaming Server with Priority on Security
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Philippine Crocodile posted this in #questions
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Philippine CrocodileOP
I'm building a home gaming PC that will be hosting Minecraft and few other games that my friends can join. Security is my primary concern. My current ISP only allows one IP address per household. So, how can I mask my public IP? Is Google Cloud VPN a viable solution for this scenario? Or Cloudflare maybe? I've another PC that I use for other tasks like banking and other works. The gaming server will be used solely for gaming. What I want, I believe, is to have a solution that will mask my public IP address for all the games that will be hosted in that machine without affecting the internet traffic in my other work machine.
Sun bear
You really should just buy a machine in the cloud tbh
If you want none of it to affect your home internet traffic
Asiatic Lion
Options
TcpShield - Benefits is basically DDoS protection while hiding your IP - free
Using tunnel software like Ngrok or playit.gg - free
Buy a VPS and use it as a tunnel - paid but likely better then the free options
TcpShield - Benefits is basically DDoS protection while hiding your IP - free
Using tunnel software like Ngrok or playit.gg - free
Buy a VPS and use it as a tunnel - paid but likely better then the free options
@Sun bear Why do you want to mask your IP anyways?
Philippine CrocodileOP
I just don't like the idea of exposing my home IP to the internet!
@Philippine Crocodile I just don't like the idea of exposing my home IP to the internet!
Sun bear
Well it’s already exposed to the internet because it is the internet
Asiatic Lion
I mean you'll need to make sure you aren't port forwarding if you do tunnel shit or wanting to prevent people from seeing it associated to your ip
Sun bear
And if it’s just close friends then it realllly doesn’t matter
@Sun bear You really should just buy a machine in the cloud tbh
Philippine CrocodileOP
I've tried that. Currently I've two of them - one from Bisecthosting, and another a VPS instance from OVH.
Asiatic Lion
Real question is why are you trying to Self host
@Sun bear And if it’s just close friends then it realllly doesn’t matter
Philippine CrocodileOP
I like being pro-active vs re-active
@Philippine Crocodile I like being pro-active vs re-active
Sun bear
Then don’t self host
@Sun bear Then don’t self host
Philippine CrocodileOP
There has to be other options than not self-hosting
Sun bear
And giving an IP address isn’t a dangerous thing
@Asiatic Lion Real question is why are you trying to Self host
Philippine CrocodileOP
So, I can have a beefy machine with poweful CPU, GPU and SSD and host whatever games I want
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