GUIDE: Protecting your home network while hosting IPTV panels

For those of you starting to dabble in setting up your own rebroadcast panels (Xtream UI, IPTVPanel, etc) locally for family, you MUST secure your home network. Do not just port forward 80/8080. 1. Do not use default ports. Change your panel streaming port to something random like 44123. 2. Put your panel server on a separate VLAN segmented from your main home network (so if the box gets compromised, they can't access your NAS or cameras). 3. Use Cloudflare proxy (orange cloud) for the panel domain to obscure your true residential IP. 4. Restrict access in your firewall so only Cloudflare IP ranges can actually hit your open port.