I have self hosted immich on Debian on my homelab. I have also setup tailscale to be able to access it outside my home.

Sometime ago, I was able to purchase a domain of my choice from GoDaddy. While I am used to hosting stuff on Linux, I’ve never exposed it for access publicly. I want to do that now.

Is it something I can do within tailscale or do I need to setup something like cloudflare? What should I be searching for to learn and implement? What precautions to take? I would like to keep the tailscale thing too.

PS: I would like to host immich as a subdomain like photos.mydomain.com.

Thanks!

  • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I have used reverse proxy in office setup where my local IP was NATed to a dedicated public IP. But in my home lab, I don’t have a dedicated public IP. So, i need to figure a way around that.

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Just run a cron job updating your IP every 24 hours. All I’ve ever done for the last decade or so.

      I should clarify, I use namecheap as my registrar and Afraid as my nameserver. Afraid has curl, cron and even just a url i think you can use to update your IP.

    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I know everyone loves to shit on Oracle, but a free-tier Oracle VPS would solve this.

      Or if you want something decent pay for a cheap VPS.

      • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
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        5 months ago

        We’re running home labs because we’ve learned that relying on “free” services eventually comes back to bite you.

        • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Absolutely, if it was anything I needed or even really wanted to be sure was reliably available I’d never put it on a free VPS.

          Now, something trivial like this that just requires installing wireguard and nginx, copying over some configs, and changing a DNS record? Hard to beat free.