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You’ve got Cloudflare tunnels/Zero Trust and Tailscale. You’ve got it wrapped up. Honest Question: What makes you think Caddy would be better? I think adding Caddy would be adding more complexity to a system that is already got everything it needs to operate correctly. I’m not even sure what Caddy would bring to the table in this scenario.

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Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I just replied to your other comment before I saw this one, but I’ll post the reply here too for anyone who’s following the thread :)

The main thing I’m still not sure of is Tailscale. I don’t know if I can just put my services behind an URL for my wife to add to her devices, as she’s unlikely to remember to run Tailscale before she listens to her music, for example.

Sorry, I’ve just replied to another comment before I saw yours. I didn’t realise that Cloudflare could deal with encryption on its own, I thought you needed something like Caddy to get certificates. I found out after seeing the other comment that one of my services running through the Cloudflare tunnel is encrypted, but I couldn’t get it to work in the past. I’m not sure what’s changed, but I’m going to give it a proper look once I’ve had some sleep.

There’s something about the networking side of things that just throws me, and I struggle to get my head around it. If I can get things running through Cloudflare, I’ll be very happy :)

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- irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I do appologize for not getting back sooner.
  
  through the Cloudflare tunnel is encrypted,
  
  Yes indeed
  
  I thought you needed something like Caddy to get certificates
  
  You can, and Caddy works well. It just didn’t make sense in this scenario. No worries, mate.
  
  but I’m going to give it a proper look once I’ve had some sleep.
  
  Well. I do have some notes tjat might help put the pieces together, if you get stuck.
  
  The main thing I’m still not sure of is Tailscale
  
  I use tailscale on the server as a overlay protective overlay, which could be accessed as well if needed,
  
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  - Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Please don’t apologise, you and the other commenters have been a massive help :)
    
    It’s sod’s law though, I was supposed to have two pretty much free days yesterday and today, and they’ve turned out to be two of the busiest days I’ve had for a long time. Networking is one of my blind spots, I can never quite get my head around it, so gave myself two days to try to get up to speed and seem to have jinxed myself :D
    
    I’m going to spend an hour or two now playing around with Cloudflare and Navidrome and see if I can get a better grip on it all.
    
    Thanks again for the help :)
    
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    irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    It’s sod’s law though, I was supposed to have two pretty much free days yesterday and today, and they’ve turned out to be two of the busiest days I’ve had for a long time. Networking is one of my blind spots, I can never quite get my head around it, so gave myself two days to try to get up to speed and seem to have jinxed myself :D
    
    OK, well the notes offer is still valid if you should so need them.
    
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