Hiding Nextcloud Server behind VPN (port forwarding, Domain registration)

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Hey people! I would like to create a publicly accessible cloud, without exposing my home IP Adress to anyone. For that I use a paid VPN Sevice, that uses OpenVPN or Wireguard.

The VPN Service allows to forward ports for a specific VPN-using device i.e. my Server.

The complicated thing now is, that everything running on the server has to go through that VPN, to allow perfect privacy.

  • Pinning a DNS Provider to update the changing IP (not sure if that happens with the VPN provider)
  • the whole domain registration process should be as private as possible (maybe I can use an already existing one)
  • Every connection outside of the VPN should be forbidden, Updates, everything

Have you done something like that and can explain? Thanks in advance!

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Hello,

Pardon me, but what is the question here?

If your question is about the possibility of using a VPN to hide your server, then the answer is yes, it can be done and many setups are running like this.

It is not about nextcloud, it’s a networking related question I guess

Thanks.

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