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Why is everyone using Tailscale? Edit: I meant Traefik (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Title. I looked at how to configure anything and found Caddy to be much easier to use. Aside from a lot of docker images integrating with it, why is everyone using it? Edit: I meant Traefik

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I use both. Caddy on a VPS that reaches into my Tailscale network and proxies services hosted on a computer in my basement.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    @Jason2357 @uranibaba does it pay out? I mean, you can also forward a port from one interface to another on the VPS and have one service less, am I missing something?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The VPS is a $2 instance and very under powered, however it has a dedicated static IP and some Ddos protection. The basement computer is powerfully and capable of providing various services, but I don’t want any trouble with my home IP address. Tailscale let’s the VPS see the home computer securely.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I meant to ask about Traefik vs Caddy, but you setup is genius.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Thanks, I like it. The downside is that the VPS can see the content of my services, so it’s no good if you don’t trust the VPS provider, or if the content is too sensitive to allow that. I think it’s a good trade-off for my usage though. Performs well. One of the services I proxy is a rpi serving images downloaded from weather satellites. Connecting directly to the pi is super slow, but the proxy caching makes it 100% faster.

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