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I really don't like that videos are becoming standard way for tutorials. Personally, I much prefer text articles for IT topics, since it's easier to follow them

I really don't like that videos are becoming standard way for tutorials. Personally, I much prefer text articles for IT topics, since it's easier to follow them, and skim through if needed. Additionally, title is a bit misleading, since he is just replacing cloud hosting with a self-hosted server at home, which has many downsides (probably no redundant internet connection and electrical feed, any bug in the exposed application code can potentially lead to accessing his home network.) This might be okay in many cases, but it's like comparing apples to oranges. In the video, he also mentions that he doesn't want to use port forwarding, but Tailscale basically does this via NAT traversal.

hello_moto 5y ago
>I really don't like that videos are becoming standard way for tutorials. Personally, I much prefer text articles for IT topics, since it's easier to follow them, and skim through if needed. Me too! BUT, I love how we have ebbs and flows w.r.t to "one approach" vs "the other approach". That's what keep the market stimulating. Since 2000-2015, books are kings From 2015-onwards, videos are getting more and more prominent I love that there are folks who still prefer text and I foresee content creator that focuses on high-quality text content can charge more until everybody moves to text/book again :). ... and then we repeat the cycle. This is great for the content creator :)
oskapt 5y ago
It's impossible to traverse NAT without having ports forwarded between the public and private IPs. My comment meant that I didn't want to manually configure port forwarding on my edge router back to hosts and then have to maintain that configuration and update it as things change, especially for a solution like a VPN that's going to have a lot of dynamism to the ports where it's running. I wanted a robust solution with minimal manual intervention, and with Tailscale, Traefik and Flux, that's what I was able to build.

hello_moto 5y ago

>I really don't like that videos are becoming standard way for tutorials. Personally, I much prefer text articles for IT topics, since it's easier to follow them, and skim through if needed. Me too! BUT, I love how we have ebbs and flows w.r.t to "one approach" vs "the other approach". That's what keep the market stimulating. Since 2000-2015, books are kings From 2015-onwards, videos are getting more and more prominent I love that there are folks who still prefer text and I foresee content creator that focuses on high-quality text content can charge more until everybody moves to text/book again :). ... and then we repeat the cycle. This is great for the content creator :)

oskapt 5y ago

It's impossible to traverse NAT without having ports forwarded between the public and private IPs. My comment meant that I didn't want to manually configure port forwarding on my edge router back to hosts and then have to maintain that configuration and update it as things change, especially for a solution like a VPN that's going to have a lot of dynamism to the ports where it's running. I wanted a robust solution with minimal manual intervention, and with Tailscale, Traefik and Flux, that's what I was able to build.