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!

  • DontNoodlesOPEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Thanks, I’ll figure the best way out based on the responses.

    And lol, I did not know about goDaddy being this bad since this was the first time I purchased a domain. Is it possible to move domains from one provider to another or do I have to wait for it to expire and then register on the other provider?

    • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      You can transfer at any time and keep the remaining registration time. The only negative is you have to pay the new regristrar a renewal fee to complete the trasnfer, this adds nore time to your domain, you just would have to pay it early once. They often do deals for transfers especially around holidays.

      • DontNoodlesOPEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Thank you, I’ll work it out based on what you’ve told me.