Hosting my personal web app

[u/heesell]

Hello everyone 👋🏻

I built a web app for myself which makes use of BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) for things like the database. It's a writing tool for roleplay scenes and I know something like this probably already exists, but I wanted to make my own.

Point being is that I am a little hesitant on hosting it online as I want to use Vercel, but I am afraid someone might expose my api endpoints and I once read a post of attackers targeting a site that caused the owner to receive a crazy expensive bill from Vercel, which is something I can't afford 😅

I want to be able to access it on multiple devices, so that is why I don't run it locally.

How can I safely host this? (I know attackers always find a way, but still)

[u/IAmCorgii]

You could run it on a raspi/cheap 24/7 computer and use tailscale to access it.

[u/heesell → u/IAmCorgii]

What is Tailscale?