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!

  • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
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    16 days 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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      16 days 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.