Self hosting is great. The access part is hard.

Pangolin was the missing piece I needed, to not expose my servers to the internet and easily have my services publicly accessible with built in auth.

Tailscale kind of worked, but it was a hassle needing the client on mobile device and it being a VPN.

With vibe coding, I have more of my own apps running than pre-built.

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bubblemoth 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wireguard is relatively simple. The VPN on my phone automatically connects when I disconnect from my home wifi, then it's like I'm at home.

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theoreticalmal 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Pfsense and maybe openwrt allow split horizon DNS that allows Wireguard tunnels to work seamlessly whether you’re on or off your home network. Took me years to figure out but it’s what I use now

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turtlebits 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not requiring friends/family to use a client to access my services is so much simpler.

I also use Adguard which act a VPN to filter traffic. I dont feel like messing around to get both working.

	▲	cromka 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use Brave and never had a kneed for AdGuard, specifically because of how it uses VPN. Then I use Wireguard to seamlessly access my home setup. Honestly, I choose security and very little admin anxiety over random ads in other, non-browser apps or sites.

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ycuser2 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's a cool feature. Do you run Android? How did you set this up?

	▲	hammycheesy 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not the user you replied to, but I run a similar set-up using "WG Tunnel," which is available on F-Droid and the Play Store. You can configure a WireGuard tunnel to auto-connect when you are not on a set list of "trusted networks."

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spacephysics 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why the downvotes? Genuinely curious, I do this and don’t know of a downside after setup (with help from {AGENT})

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Hikikomori 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cloudflare zero trust also works for this, nice if you already use them for DNS and proxy. You install cloudflared tunnel, expose select ports as a service in zero trust, then whitelist email addresses that can log in to zero trust and when they a one time password to log in when they try it. When logged in you get a page showing the services available as clickable links.

Vibe coded a python script to configure Cloudflare, it just looks on docker annotations so I can select which containers to expose.

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oscarteg 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What tools did you create yourself?