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Just a little note Tailscale isn't painful to manage - that's their base product: easy to use Wireguard. As for whether you need it for a Minecraft server.. we
by corobo 6y ago
Just a little note Tailscale isn't painful to manage - that's their base product: easy to use Wireguard.
As for whether you need it for a Minecraft server.. well I wouldn't personally have questioned it, we're on a site called hacker news after all. If anything I'd love more posts like this from people who are tinkering with things.
If you remove the DigitalOcean part though and add in a home PC you do then get the benefits of being able to just connect. No port forwards, no faff.
If we're really really unironically asking why.. because Tailscale wants more customers, it's what companies do.
- lambda_obrien 6y ago> easy to use Wireguard It gets easier?! I love how easy Wireguard is, stock, so perhaps I'll try Tailscale. Also, a good reason to do this would be to play with friends easily, sometimes NAT and other things make it hard to connect to a gaming server, and also servers like Minecraft run a lot of code from inexperienced devs, so probably lots of security concerns there. Setting up a firewall to do that is a bit harder, you need to know your friends IPs and such.