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Depends on whether you're talking about stuff that you actually want to be "exposed to the public" (i.e. can receive traffic from any IP) or just "accessible fr

Depends on whether you're talking about stuff that you actually want to be "exposed to the public" (i.e. can receive traffic from any IP) or just "accessible from outside the LAN." If the former, Tailscale isn't really a good fit since it only permits access to authenticated devices. If the latter, Tailscale is perfect. It's a VPN in the original sense of the world, "private" being the operative term - your devices can communicate as if they were all on the same LAN, without worrying about their traffic being eavesdropped. As for the pricing, I'm fairly confident that Tailscale won't mind if you're sharing a free plan (so single-user) across e.g. your laptop and your wife's, even though there are technically two "users" there. They've made it pretty clear that the divide they care about is "personal use free, company use paid."

unshavedyak 4y ago
On the note of free plan. It's actually a bit of a shame.. i want to pay, i like $5/m, but it looks like $5/m is less devices than if i used free? Though i just noticed that the Personal Pro plan works with up to 100 devices for $4/m. Might give that a try. I really like paying.. as i hate free VC services. edit: Wow, the signup requirement is bizarre though. I don't have or want Google or Microsoft.. i do have a Github, which i guess i'll have to use... but what the hell? So odd that i can't just signup with my email.
- TheFlyingFish 4y ago
  Yeah, they get a lot of flak for that from HN. Doesn't bother me personally, but I can see why it would be a dealbreaker for some people. On the other hand, I sympathize with their decision to just not have to worry about storing passwords, account recovery, and all the associated headaches, because I hate those headaches too. My guess is they will eventually add a sign-up-with-email option, but it's pretty far from the top of their priority list.
  - unshavedyak 4y ago
    In researching the email issue i saw a fair number of people arguing to decouple accounts from identities. I thought that was fair. I use Github and i have no problem there, but i didn't want some snafu on my account (Github) to somehow block my home network access. So i just signed up with an alternate Github "Identity" account to use with Tailscale. Still feels weird, but we'll see how it goes.
    - infogulch 4y ago
      Note a discussion elsethread about this where a tailscalar chimed in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33987904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33987904

unshavedyak 4y ago

On the note of free plan. It's actually a bit of a shame.. i want to pay, i like $5/m, but it looks like $5/m is less devices than if i used free? Though i just noticed that the Personal Pro plan works with up to 100 devices for $4/m. Might give that a try. I really like paying.. as i hate free VC services. edit: Wow, the signup requirement is bizarre though. I don't have or want Google or Microsoft.. i do have a Github, which i guess i'll have to use... but what the hell? So odd that i can't just signup with my email.

TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Yeah, they get a lot of flak for that from HN. Doesn't bother me personally, but I can see why it would be a dealbreaker for some people. On the other hand, I sympathize with their decision to just not have to worry about storing passwords, account recovery, and all the associated headaches, because I hate those headaches too. My guess is they will eventually add a sign-up-with-email option, but it's pretty far from the top of their priority list.
- unshavedyak 4y ago
  In researching the email issue i saw a fair number of people arguing to decouple accounts from identities. I thought that was fair. I use Github and i have no problem there, but i didn't want some snafu on my account (Github) to somehow block my home network access. So i just signed up with an alternate Github "Identity" account to use with Tailscale. Still feels weird, but we'll see how it goes.
  - infogulch 4y ago
    Note a discussion elsethread about this where a tailscalar chimed in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33987904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33987904