Hi, this is my first post on this subreddit. I’ve been self-hosting various applications (Syncthing, Pi-hole, Navidrome, Jellyfin, Actual…) for almost two years now, and I want to take a step forward by accessing my resources from the public Internet.
I’ve been researching for one year about topics like port forwarding, reverse proxying, setting up VPN, and moving to a VPS; and I recently started trying Microsoft Azure’s Standard B1s VM. However, I can’t devise an acceptable and satisfactory solution.
These are some of my concerns:
- I don’t want to apply for static IP and port forward from my router to my modem to the public Internet.
- I need a sustainable solution since most VPS providers are too pricey for me.
I’m open to every type of suggestion; you can criticize my concerns, too :)
/r/Zerotier or /r/Tailscale
with the caveat that this entails installing a application on the client device that accesses the server & whitelist it - so workable if you’re accessing your server using your own phone/laptop, not so much on a random company PC or your friends.
If you want ‘random’ externals accessing your server, you’ll have to VPN out to a third party server that forwards ports, or host the entire thing in the cloud.
Check out Tailscale Funnel