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by puzzlingcaptcha 2068 days ago
Yeah, a VPN gateway on a VPS does away with a lot of that complexity. Having your LAN devices in the same virtual network makes dyndns, hole punching and port forwarding largely unnecessary. However, I still view wrapper scripts that you are supposed to curl | bash with some suspicion. I have a simple IPSec setup with strongswan and frankly I did not find the documentation to be as daunting as people make it out to be.

If there is a certbot plugin [1] for your DNS provider's API then renewal of TLS certs is a matter of a single cronjob with some hooks for other services. I set it up 18 months ago and it has never failed to renew.

[1] https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html?highlight=dns#dns-pl...