Hey everyone. This is probably a super noob question, but I’m very much just an amateur when it comes to self-hosting.
I host several services that I access locally through 192.whatever:####, and when I occasionally need remote access, I use Tailscale and access through 100.whatever: ####. The duplicate bookmarks is mildly annoying though.
Can I just buy a personal domain, and have all my services be coolname.com:#### for both local and Tailscale access? Is that as simple a process as I want it to be?
Edit: I appreciate all the comments and I’ll probably just use Tailacale’s MagicDNS for simplicity, but one or my (unwritten, my bad) goals was to have one URL that works locally and remotely, regardless of Tailscale. I don’t leave Tailscale constantly connected because it overheats my phone (which already has terrible battery life).
@Reannlegge @selfhosted Truly, an epic post. Lots of good ideas here! You reminded me of a few things I’ve overlooked. I’m in the process of subnetting and VLANs and all the rest. It’s making my IoT devices crazy but eventually things will settle down. One thing you didn’t mention was printers. I am super paranoid about them. A few years ago somebody zombied mine and used it to attack my other devices from the inside! I eventually won that battle. Now I just leave the printer off and disconnected from the network unless I am going to print or scan something right then. You also didn’t mention Bluetooth. Last time I did a scan for devices it found over 200, all but a handful not mine. Anyway, thanks for posting. <<Hold the door!>>