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Private LAN VPN Access
The scope here concerns use of VPN (Virtual Private Network) to gain secure access from the public network to a local private network. It relates to private secure access and use from the public network. It does not consider public VPNs setup for public use.
There have been considered 3 different levels of access as described by the applications used:
- Nextcloud - a full privately hosted publicly accessible file shareing application, with many additional features
- Privatebin - An encrypted file publicly accessible file sharing server
- Wireguard - A VPN server
These applications and their scope are described further below.
Nextcloud
Nextcloud is an open source content collaboration platform. At its core is file-sharing, but it has many other core functions as well as extensibility with additional installed applications. While Nextcloud can securely share files it is not focused as a simple, public, and secure file-sharing platform.
I have been using Nextcloud and before that Owncloud from which Nextcloud was forked since circa 2013. My server setup is described here: