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Would you mind going into more detail about the 4-core Linux Laptop as a production server via Tailscale, please? I too use Tailscale and love it for self-hosti
by aquariusDue 2y ago
Would you mind going into more detail about the 4-core Linux Laptop as a production server via Tailscale, please? I too use Tailscale and love it for self-hosting internal stuff but I never thought about using it for public facing production stuff. Now I'm really curious to hear more about your setup (if you're willing to share of course).
- phantompeace 2y agoNot the person you’ve asked but I regularly use it for backends for projects. Connect your database machine to your Tailscale network and have your code talk over the Tailscale IP to connect to it. I’ve served multiple Flask frontends that have talked to backends this way - works great! I use various cloud VMs to host the frontend, and they all talk to an Optiplex Micro box under my desk for their backends.
- k_bx 2y agoThis, plus you get free domain name with HTTPS cert working.
- k_bx 2y agoIt's very simple. We needed to begin somewhere, and until we've had at least 10-20 active users which load our database with their analytics queries, we wouldn't require a lot in terms of compute power and speed. However, we do have electricity stability problems sometimes (and internet outage), so something which has its own battery and ability to switch to a backup wifi/lte was a great choice as a start. So that laptop was a "free server" we've had. It's now replaced by a much beefier miniPC.