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Always enjoyed scrolling though these posts, figured I'd give it a go here:

What are your must-have selfhosted services?

Some of mine:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it's gotta be Portainer, Vaultwarden, and Tailscale. Everything else (FreshRSS, Heimdall, Paperless) is just cream.

[–] thirdBreakfast 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 for Tailscale. It's a vital piece of the system for me now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What makes it so useful? Is it just remote access if you're away from your pc, or what do you use it for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You dont need to expose any ports and the setup is really easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And you use the vaultwarden setup where letsencrypt certificates are done via dns challenge?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tailscale is an overlay network, like a traditional VPN, but with very little config needed to get everything connected. You can use their managed lighthouse and management servers or run your own with Headscale.

Basically you just login to tailscale on all your devices and they get a LAN connection piped over the Internet without opening ports or needing to manage any infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Basically that's how I use it, just a secure VPN tunnel to my home hosted stuff while I'm out. Painless to set up.