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).
Yes you can, and it could be even simpler for you. You can get Caddy working and give each service its own address, (service).coolname.com no need for port number. Than you tell caddy what IP addresses it can host out to. But even if you did not want to buy a domain, you can still use caddy with some made up address.
If you only have a few services running I am sure you could continue running the port numbers but I much prefer using caddy.
Wouldn’t it be unsafe to expose to the internet like that?