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Been trying to secure my network. i have loads of open ports that i wanted to close up. and 32400 was one of them i would like to close up. I found out about how load balancers work, and thought “great not only can i close up that port, but i might be able to balance my plex server between two servers to share the load”. I closed up the port ran it through my load balancer instead, and i’m able to see it, however I am only able to get an “indirect” conection. which is not suitable for my needs, I would love to get a regular connection through a load balanced network if anyone has any information on how to do so properly.
- putting a load balancer in front of a server is not “closing” its outside port. It is merely switching the port forwarding between two or more instances of this server. There is no added protection against hacking achieved by doing this. The only (kind of) protection you can achieve with a load balancer is against a DDoS attack. And if someone feels the need to DDoS your little private Plex server, then you have bigger problems.
Anyway, item 2) - Plex does not support operation behind load balancers. Doing so would require duplication of its internal database, which is not possible.
Thanks for the information, I suppose the information was from a tech youtuber and should be investigated further. I don’t understand how redirecting traffic through 443 and only having one port open on my network doesn’t make me less secure, but i’ll do some research on it for sure. Thanks for your time.
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