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).

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    The downside to the .ts.net approach is that you need to install multiple TS clients if you want multiple subdomains. Typically one per service.

    There are projects like TSD-Proxy that help with that. It makes it so you only use one Docker container instead of having to make a sidecar container for every service.

    Then you also have to resolve *.tailnet.ts.net on your LAN’s DNS and that’s it. Unless you ever want to use something other than Tailscale, that is.