Can I host my own server on TrueNAS?

Keyakinan

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Hello,

I have a kinda wierd situation, I live in a student dorm and the ethernet cable that comes out of the wall is connected to a router of my housing corperation.
Without their router I cannot use the internet.. I have my own router connected to their router and all my devices are connected to my router.

I have my microserver with TrueNAS also connected to my own router but I'm not sure how I go about exposing the NAS (SAFELY) to the internet.
In the end I want to (again safely) host my own website and something like couchpotato + plex.

If possible at all, could someone point me in the right direction. I think it will be something like portforwarding but with the extra router I'm not sure..
I'm kinda new to all this and the most I'm worried about is security.

Hardware:
HP Proliant Microserver gen8

Software (future):
Couchpotato
VM with ubuntu and a server for my website
Plex
 

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Jailer

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You'll have to see if your housing cooperation will forward port 80 and/or 443 to the WAN on your router. Without that you're stuck behind double NAT and there's no path out for your NAS.
 

Keyakinan

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You'll have to see if your housing cooperation will forward port 80 and/or 443 to the WAN on your router. Without that you're stuck behind double NAT and there's no path out for your NAS.

I do have access to their router in my room and can port forward, is that what you mean and enough?
 

Jailer

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Yes. You will have to port forward from their router to your WAN. From there you'll have to set up a port forward on your router as well to the jail you want to host a service on.
 
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