I think a lot of people just haven’t heard of Caddy. Since I’ve found it I haven’t used anything else.

Thank you.

And created the firewall rules to forward (some) incoming traffic to my home server.

I guess this is the missing piece for me. I’ve already got all of my devices and VPSes setup with Tailscale, I’m just not sure which software to use that can do this forwarding.

I know Tailscale Funnels, Cloudflare Tunnels, and Caddy could be solutions for some, but in my experience they only do TCP or restrict what sort of traffic can be forwarded.

Thanks. This solution looks like it might work, too.

I’m looking to maybe replace my VPS with something like Hoppy and a Raspberry Pi (I imagine the Pi 5 8GB might be stronger than anything I can get for $8/m). I have a static public IP anyway, but I’d rather not host websites and stuff using that.

I think it depends on what kind of services they are using as I think Funnel is designed for HTTPS traffic, no UDP or custom ports.

If you’re the only one connecting to the server, I would recommend something like Tailscale. Everything will be encrypted and you won’t need to forward any ports to the public internet.

If other people need to access it, an option might be https://hoppy.network. I haven’t tried it myself, but it looks like it would be pretty slick if it works well.

I use Mullvad through Tailscale. If you already use Tailscale it’s a no-brainer

I was looking at this the other day. It would be nice if there was a self-hosted equivalent of untitled.stream

It’s not a Termius alternative, but I found that after setting up Tailscale SSH on all my servers, I don’t really bother using Termius any more.

The plain macOS terminal looks better to me anyway

I don’t recommend Oracle at all if you value your sanity. Paying a couple bucks a month for DigitalOcean or Vultr (or probably almost anything else) is so worth it compared to dealing with that monstrosity

Also, I’ve experienced this, and I’ve heard reports of others having the same issue; Oracle might just randomly delete/disable your VPS

I would recommend Fedora or Pop!_os

This is just great! Tailscale is doing ALL the right things it seems. So happy to try this out

Like the other commenter mentioned, ChatGPT can be really helpful for these kind of questions. I’m not sure if there’s any “starter guide” since everyone starts with different wants and needs.

I will say, you should look into Tailscale once you’ve got your services up and running on your home network. Tailscale makes it simple and secure to access those services from outside your home network without any port forwarding.

https://njal.la is good in my experience

I’m loving it but I can’t get it to work 😂

I’ve not gotten one. I think macOS is less prone to viruses than Windows, but there’s always a risk.

Cmacked but you’re going to have to deal with lots of ads and direct downloading

Tailscale is great but I find it non trivial to run in conjunction with another VPN (Mullvad). Anyone have experience with this? Seems I can have only one or the other for iOS or macOS

Is public key authentication not good enough? Tailscale is cool but can be tedious if you also use other VPNs

Is it possible to migrate a community from one instance to another?

It was slow to boot and slow over ssh.

I found that booting and connecting over SSH went way faster once I got a better SD card. Running an install script that took half an hour was down to just a couple minutes

DuckDNS is great, but you only need it if you have a dynamic IP. It’s worth checking if you have a static public IP before adding another layer of complexity.

and I always advice to not use a different party for nameservers than the party that registered the domain.

Why is that? I register most of my domains at Porkbun, but I usually use Cloudflare’s nameservers as they seem to support more record types, have more features, and have a better UI than most registrars’ offerings.

I’ve had success with PowerDNS (PDNS). I like that it comes with a HTTP API and it’s got integrations with Caddy and other ACME clients if you need that.

I’ve been using RapidAPI on my Mac. It looks quite nice, but I’ve found some parts to be a little buggy.

I’m trying to collect all the apps! I’ve got Mlem, Memmy, and Rennes and I signed up for the Artemis waitlist

It’s supposed to suck!