Please don't expose your new NAS to the internet

2026/09/12 17:42

Setting up a NAS takes a lot of weight off your PC's shoulders and reduces the financial strain of cloud storage and streaming services, too.

Setting up a NAS takes a lot of weight off your PC's shoulders and reduces the financial strain of cloud storage and streaming services, too. They are often marketed as your personal, private cloud with oodles of expandable storage and redundancy protection for your backups, media, and important files, all accessible from any device on your Wi-Fi. On your local home network, it's a secure, fast, and convenient data vault that can run several self-hosted services as well.

However, extending that personal cloud beyond your four walls to access your files from a hotel, or automatically back up your phone's photos while you're on vacation, is deceptively simple. When starting out with a new NAS, you could easily flick a few switches in your router settings to make your NAS visible to the public internet. Inadvertently or otherwise, this is a dangerous proposition because what enables remote access for you...

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