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Wow, yeah Tailscale looks like it basically does everything you'd want for this: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ https://tailscale.com/blog/how-

Wow, yeah Tailscale looks like it basically does everything you'd want for this: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ I didn't even realize this was possible: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ I had seen some of the people working there comment on twitter, but I don't think those blog posts were written when I last looked them up and I didn't understand what they were actually doing. This looks like the answer for most people if you don't need to give public access to the stuff you're hosting. If you do though, I'm still not sure what the thing to do is. If I wanted to host my blog from home instead of via github pages or digital ocean, what's the right way to do that? Is there a reason nobody does this?

xyzzy_plugh 6y ago
When I was young I served my websites off my home network. Dynamic DNS would update my A record if my IP changed, but I managed to trick my ISP into effectively giving me a static IP. DMZ'd a host on my network and set up a firewall, and you're off to the races. Nowadays I just pay for a $5 VPS somewhere -- my uptime is significantly better this way!
- acoard 6y ago
  Do you use the $5 VPS as like a reverse proxy and you're still self-hosting at home? Or did you move your self-hosted applications to the VPS? I am setting up a self-hosted lab and looking at (securely) setting up remote access. Was leaning towards OpenVPN as pfSense supported it, but have been considering a locked down VPS remote proxy too (at least for some services) and happy to hear thoughts.
  - apenwarr 6y ago
    [Tailscale founder] One thing you can do here is use tailscale to connect all your devices together, including that VPS, and then set up a reverse proxy on the VPS that forwards queries to your various devices over tailscale.

xyzzy_plugh 6y ago

When I was young I served my websites off my home network. Dynamic DNS would update my A record if my IP changed, but I managed to trick my ISP into effectively giving me a static IP. DMZ'd a host on my network and set up a firewall, and you're off to the races. Nowadays I just pay for a $5 VPS somewhere -- my uptime is significantly better this way!

acoard 6y ago
Do you use the $5 VPS as like a reverse proxy and you're still self-hosting at home? Or did you move your self-hosted applications to the VPS? I am setting up a self-hosted lab and looking at (securely) setting up remote access. Was leaning towards OpenVPN as pfSense supported it, but have been considering a locked down VPS remote proxy too (at least for some services) and happy to hear thoughts.
- apenwarr 6y ago
  [Tailscale founder] One thing you can do here is use tailscale to connect all your devices together, including that VPS, and then set up a reverse proxy on the VPS that forwards queries to your various devices over tailscale.