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I started off with pi hole when i started messing around with an old laptop for self hosting. My advice is setup what you think is useful.

To access the server outside your home, tailscale is a great option. Fairly simple to setup especially if its just you accessing the server.

Reverse proxy would be best if you intend to let others acess your servers services often or if you dont wanna mess with tunnels. I settled on cloudflare tunnels because i didn’t want another thing to turn on to acess my server outside my house.

When I didn’t have a carrier grade nat to deal with, i used caddy server for automatically getting ssl certs from lets encrypt and reverse proxy all in one. I really liked that once i got it setup.

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driveway@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I can’t be connected to Tailscale and some other VPN at the same time, can I?

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- Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Depends on the device, but on devices like android no.
  
  I can’t say I’ve gone through with it myself, but in theory you could have a host somewhere connected to a VPN that you send a your tailscale traffic through as an exit node
  
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- habitualTartare@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  On Android and I believe IOS it’s a single connection. I would start with the basic functionality (also don’t create a tailscale account with GitHub bc it does weird things with sharing if you ever want to have multiple users).
  
  Once you’ve got the VPN and storage working I can think of two options to give you the functionality of 2 vpns
  
  tasker is an android app that can let you automate a lot. It might let you switch vpns when opening say your storage app and switch back a bit easier than toggling it in settings.
  
  setup your lap-server at home with an outgoing public VPN so traffic goes mobile device> tailscale> public VPN. Essentially acting like you’re home using your public VPN. This may take some tinkering to work properly, especially when you’re home on the same network. Plus you would definitely see a Network speed impact on your phone.
  
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- LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Tailscale and Mullvad VPN recently partnered up to solve this exact issue. So in the admin panel of tailscale you could set up a device as an exitnode and then have that run through one of Mullvads servers. It’s all very neat and simple 😊
  
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  - BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Exit nodes KICK ASS.
    
    Makes it so my RPi enables me to manage any device on my home network from anywhere. I can print from my laptop or phone to my home printer. No need for a Tailscale client on hardware devices.
    
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  - driveway@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That sounds awesome.
    
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- AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why would you be?
  
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  - BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Generally Tailscale uses an app on every device to be a member of the Tailscale Virtual Mesh network.
    
    Though by using the Funnel, Serve, and Subnet Router features you can access things without the Tailscale client app.
    
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- Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That i can’t say. Id imagine no at least on android.
  
  If you dont mind the extra setup, cloudflare tunnels are awesome. developers.cloudflare.com/…/connect-networks/
  
  I prefer this over tailscale as i dont want to have an app i need to access my server.
  
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  - BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Tailscale only requires one app install, on a device in your network.
    
    That device can be configued as a subnet router (providing local network access to Tailscale connections).
    
    Then using either the Funnel or Serve option, remote devices can access your Tailnet without a client installed.
    
    Just an option, another way of achieving similar results (though with different capabilities) as Cloudflare.
    
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    Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The more you know! Do you know any guides that go over this? I’d be interested in setting this up.
    
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