I’ve been running a small self-hosted environment with a couple of VMs and I’m trying to separate outbound traffic for different services in a cleaner way. I keep seeing people mention setting up private proxy servers instead of relying only on VPNs, but I’m not really sure what stack actually makes sense at this scale.
Right now I’m experimenting with a basic setup and also looking at a few lightweight reverse proxy options, but I’m getting a bit lost on how people typically handle things like authentication, logging, and keeping it stable without turning it into something overly complex. Are you mainly using this kind of setup for traffic routing control, privacy separation between services, or something else entirely, and what has actually worked reliably for you long term? Thanks.