New router is no better than my SuperHub5

[Hyburnate]

I have a PIA sub and i want to make my Unraid server reachable (including docker container) outside my home network. According to the guide I tried to follow that requires port forwarding to work which the SH5 does (at least mine doesn’t).

I'm not familiar with private internet access, I assume in this context it works as a VPN tunnel back to your house? You may need to open a port for that but that's all good, it's when you start opening multiple services which provide a larger attack surface that it becomes an issue.

 

[andy_mk3]

I have a PIA sub and i want to make my Unraid server reachable (including docker container) outside my home network. According to the guide I tried to follow that requires port forwarding to work which the SH5 does (at least mine doesn’t).

PIA won’t give you access to your home network from outside of it. You need to host your own vpn for that. OpenVPN, WireGuard, Twingate for example. This will avoid opening ports for various services and keeps it secure.

 

[ChrisD.]

If your router doesn't have Wireguard (or the older/slower OpenVPN) then you need to port forward to something like a RPi running VPN software. However the idea behind a VPN is that you won't be able to authenticate unless you have the certificate installed on a client, so it's much safer than opening up port 22 or port 443 as an example.