Caching content from my homelab on a proxy VPS?
reddit / selfhosted

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RedditorOfRohan · 2023-10-28 23:46

My homelab server has several services on it (personal website,
Nextcloud, Jellyfin, etc..) that I access via a VPS, which uses Nginx
as  a reverse proxy, and tunnels traffic to/from my server at home via
a  mesh VPN. The VPS' connection is very fast, but the VPN is rather
slow,  and bottle-necks the setup.

As a solution, I'd like to try to use the VPS as a cache, this way it
would lessen the need to fetch content from my homelab through the
slow connection. However, I am unsure about the most effective way to
do this. I know that Nginx has a built in caching feature, but I'm not
sure  if/how I need to configure it to work with services like
Nextcloud; or is there is a better, additional piece of software for
the job?

*Disclaimer: I know things like Cloudflare exist for caching, but I
wanted this to be an educational, as well as practical project.*

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Sum4196 · 2023-10-29 02:28

The best way would be to set it up using nginx since you already have
it. There are projects out there like lan-cache that you could learn
from or just use. The cloudflare "Always online" option may be helpful
for static sites, but for Nextcloud uploads, unfortunately, it will be
slow regardless because of the VPN. You could use cloudflare tunnels
to your main server directly for things that are supported to speed up
those services.

Hope this helps, but it sounds like you know about all this already 😅

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tech2but1 · 2023-10-29 22:35

> the VPN is rather slow

The VPN specifically, or your home internet connection?

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RedditorOfRohan · 2023-10-30 13:04

It's the VPN (Tailscale)