SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the questions,-questions,-questions dept.
I'm putting this under security because i'd like to keep this a private server for family:
that said, I'm wondering if you fine people can help me with the best way to set up a web server in my house to host the files on my external hard drives for family members in other cities/countries while, again, keeping it private and secure over the internet.
I'm looking into ngrok for url handling, but am not sure exactly if this is the best way to go.
Can anyone save me time and possible heartache and failure and provide me (and possibly others) with a walk-through of which software to use. Would love to do something like free, but may have to get a paid unique domain from, say, ngrok, to make it easier for family members to connect up.
Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi... you're my only hope!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bradley13 on Friday January 19 2018, @10:12PM
"...provide support for your family members because they can't access your site because they're holding the mouse upside down"
This. Even though I am a teacher, I found I just did not have the patience to do tech support for my family. What my employer pays me for, I am not willing to do for free. It can be a huge trial of patience, especially if you have family members who have not clue, and are unwilling or unable to get one.
Hence my suggestion earlier: set up a stinking normal web server, with no tunnel or VPN. Even Aunt Millie and Uncle Joe-Bob probably know how to open a browser.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.