Happy new years!
One of my personal goals is to secure the data of me and my community from data scraping as much as I can. I’ve also learned a ton from blog posts on how to host software, and it’s time I contribute back.
So, welcome to my series on how I host my services with as little dependency on US-based services as I can.
I’d love feedback on my writing so I can learn and improve as well!
So tailscale client, the apps you actually download are open source. What’s not open source is the server side code.
Because the interface of tailscale is publicly known and available, someone went and made an open source server side version compatible with tailscale clients.
What’s tail scale?
It’s an easy to use VPN. I can expose just my server to the vpn and my community can easily gain access.
Your community gets access to the network? So it’s basically a virtual LAN?
Yes! That’s a very common use case for VPNs in the corporate world.