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Congrats to KubeSail team! I tried the software product a while ago and it wasn’t quite what I was looking for, but it was pretty cool. I could totally see mys

Congrats to KubeSail team! I tried the software product a while ago and it wasn’t quite what I was looking for, but it was pretty cool. I could totally see myself recommending it to people (admittedly it’s somewhat niche so the opportunity hasn’t come up). The hardware is a little pricy for someone who is pretty competent with electronics, but seems great for people who want someone all in one. That said, it looks so well done that if CM4s become easier to get I might still purchase one. Their goal of “personal server” is something I eagerly wish was mainstream, and I always try out products that try to actualize it if the price is right. I had a small issue getting it set up on a random pi I had lying around, and erulabs/others were super helpful in discord! They have extensive docs for getting set up with your own hardware, which was great. The reason i stopped using the product was two fold: k8 seems like too much for personal use- writing my own KubeSail templates was just too verbose. The other issue is that I wasn’t a fan of their cloud hosting and cloud gateway solution - it works well enough but a personal server that needs a cloud server just wasn’t what I wanted. If I needed to rely on an outside server (you do unless you wanna open ports) I’d rather vpn to the box with eg. Tailscale than rely on the gateway. Which may be more secure too(?). Getting a web gui for a self hosted cluster was really nice, and the templates they put together really lowers the entry bar to start self hosting. I’m really impressed with the selections they chose, since a huge chunk of them I saw and went “ooh I should try that out”. Kudos to the team for putting it together. A feature suggestion: some sort of identity/auth integration which can help with household stuff (eg a hosted app that KubeSail injects your identity into). Could be useful for families and SMB clients. Ps. I had a good time reading through their non-documentation blog posts too.

rubatuga 4y ago
For those who want to host their own servers and aren’t afraid to manage their own networking, we provide a tunnel service called Hoppy Network. It allows you to self host anything from mail servers to web servers, by assigning you a static IP address over a WireGuard tunnel. We forward all packets, including IPv6 and ICMP. We have great uptime (>99.9%) and great IP address reputation. https://hoppy.network https://hoppy.network
- pbronez 4y ago
  How does this solution compare to Dynamic DNS services like DuckDNS? How about overlay networks like Tailscale? My initial impression is that it solves a similar problem to DuckDNS (“how can I get a static, public IP for a machine on my residential LAN?”) using technology similar to Tailscale (WireGuard tunnels as a service). Perhaps egress/public routing is the big advantage over Tailscale? Tailscale focuses on creating a trusted perimeter so all your devices can talk to each other securely. It doesn’t have an external gateway for other people to access specific devices within that perimeter. I think their business model / architecture may actually preclude this feature… they use their hosted service primarily for peer discovery, most traffic is routed P2P.
  - vineyardmike 4y ago
    Dynamic DNS solves a similar but different problem. As the name says, it focuses on DNS. It doesn’t solve the “I get a static IP” and instead accepts the IP won’t be static and focused on identifying and updating the IP as needed. Basically it sets a DNS record for your routers WAN IP. You would need to punch holes and do port mapping and all that jazz. Hoppy appears to solve this problem by providing a static endpoint to route traffic over. Tailscale eschews the public internet altogether, while providing Tailscale-network static IPs. Tailscale is the most strict/limited as you mentioned (not all devices can address into it) but the most secure (since each device has to be included and there’s no public internet). Hoppy seems next on secure/convenient list where anything should work but you have to use public internet.
- loxias 4y ago
  Cool service! I've been wondering about something like this. The pricing seems a bit high though, considering $8/month could also buy a cheap VPS with more than 1TB bandwidth (Contabo VPS, for example, offers a whopping 32TB outgoing traffic at $7/month.) Perhaps I'm not the use case or target market, but something like this does appeal to me -- I just don't see why I'd pay for a wireguard endpoint, when I could get a VPS with a public IP and run the tunnel myself. Sorry if too critical, I was metaphorically "reaching for my credit card" when I read "static IP over wireguard tunnel", before attempting to sanity check the prices.

rubatuga 4y ago

For those who want to host their own servers and aren’t afraid to manage their own networking, we provide a tunnel service called Hoppy Network. It allows you to self host anything from mail servers to web servers, by assigning you a static IP address over a WireGuard tunnel. We forward all packets, including IPv6 and ICMP. We have great uptime (>99.9%) and great IP address reputation. https://hoppy.network https://hoppy.network

pbronez 4y ago
How does this solution compare to Dynamic DNS services like DuckDNS? How about overlay networks like Tailscale? My initial impression is that it solves a similar problem to DuckDNS (“how can I get a static, public IP for a machine on my residential LAN?”) using technology similar to Tailscale (WireGuard tunnels as a service). Perhaps egress/public routing is the big advantage over Tailscale? Tailscale focuses on creating a trusted perimeter so all your devices can talk to each other securely. It doesn’t have an external gateway for other people to access specific devices within that perimeter. I think their business model / architecture may actually preclude this feature… they use their hosted service primarily for peer discovery, most traffic is routed P2P.
- vineyardmike 4y ago
  Dynamic DNS solves a similar but different problem. As the name says, it focuses on DNS. It doesn’t solve the “I get a static IP” and instead accepts the IP won’t be static and focused on identifying and updating the IP as needed. Basically it sets a DNS record for your routers WAN IP. You would need to punch holes and do port mapping and all that jazz. Hoppy appears to solve this problem by providing a static endpoint to route traffic over. Tailscale eschews the public internet altogether, while providing Tailscale-network static IPs. Tailscale is the most strict/limited as you mentioned (not all devices can address into it) but the most secure (since each device has to be included and there’s no public internet). Hoppy seems next on secure/convenient list where anything should work but you have to use public internet.
loxias 4y ago
Cool service! I've been wondering about something like this. The pricing seems a bit high though, considering $8/month could also buy a cheap VPS with more than 1TB bandwidth (Contabo VPS, for example, offers a whopping 32TB outgoing traffic at $7/month.) Perhaps I'm not the use case or target market, but something like this does appeal to me -- I just don't see why I'd pay for a wireguard endpoint, when I could get a VPS with a public IP and run the tunnel myself. Sorry if too critical, I was metaphorically "reaching for my credit card" when I read "static IP over wireguard tunnel", before attempting to sanity check the prices.