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If you had to redo your self hosting setup, what would you do differently this time around? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by hogofwar to c/selfhosted

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I always redo it lol, which is kind of a waste but I enjoy it.

Maybe a related question is what I wish I could do if I had the time (which I will do eventually. Some I plan to do very soon):

self host wireguard instead of using tailscale
self host a ACME-like setup for self signed certificates for TLS and HTTPS
self host encrypted git server for private stuff
setup a file watcher on clients to sync my notes on-save automatically using rsync (yes I know I can use syncthing. Don't wanna!)

[–] peril33 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What is the downside of using tailscale over wireguard?

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

I don't think there's any significant downsides. I suppose you are dependent on their infrastructure and uptime. If they ever go down, or for any reason stop offering their services, then you're out of luck. But yeah that's not significant.

The reason I want to do this is it gives me more control over the setup in case I ever wanted to customize it or the wireguard config, and also teaches me more in general, which will enable me to better debug.

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

I suppose you are dependent on their infrastructure and uptime

AFAIK their infra is only used for configuring the VPN. The VPN itself is a regular peer-to-peer Wireguard VPN. If their infra goes down while a VPN tunnel is connected, the tunnel should keep working. I've never tested that, though.

You can self-host your own Headscale server to avoid using their infra.

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