[sylens]

The biggest issue to me is one of security. You have to find a way to expose your NAS to access outside the home to make it truly as convenient as the big tech cloud services. Some vendors help do this for you (Synology with QuickConnect); otherwise you're probably thinking about always using something like Tailscale or setting up a reverse proxy on a VPS that you would have to secure, patch, and monitor.

[olex]

Some home routers also offer built-in VPN using Wireguard. Works amazingly well with my Fritzbox, near zero setup on the router itself and very simple config on the end devices.

[esseph]

Cloudflare tunnels are free and give you multiple layers of protection (requiring certain auth methods, geoblocking, not needing to expose your IP, etc)

[sylens]

They are great but the free tier has restrictions like a 100mb file limit and not using it for anything like videos or music. Otherwise it would be perfect for things like Immich. As they stand they are really good for other self hosted services like a recipe manager, a bookmark manager, etc.

[esseph]

I believe that only takes place if you are using Gateway.

[madduci]

Don't you indirectly give access to Clouflare itself with their product?

[esseph]

If you are proxying outbound it will always be like this.

The alternative is exposing your IP to the internet and having to deal with your own proxying, AI bot scraping insanity, constant port scans and ssh probes, showing up as a target on shodan.io, etc.

If you want to make your home connection the service target for the dregs of the internet be my guess, but couldn't be me.

[dpacmittal]

Tailscale is wonderful for exactly this use case