Post #3398766

i have a VPS offsite to act as a gateway. it’s just a small piece of a machine somewhere in my region that routes requests to my home network via Tailscale. this has a few benefits: i don’t have to worry about my ISP changing my IP. my VPS has more stable IPs. i don’t have to expose ports directly to the internet. Tailscale authenticates the connection. plus i have Caddy routing the whole system. i use subdomains like foundry.chrash.net, jellyfin.chrash.net, etc. another benefit of Tailscale to point out is that you don’t need local IPs to be static either; Tailscale will allow you to access your machines by hostname or another static IP. this helps to decouple your local topology from your service network.