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!

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You use a reverse proxy. Configure your DNS (GoDaddy in this case) to forward requests to your domain to your WAN IP. Set up port forwarding on your router to send HTTPS requests to your server, then the reverse proxy processes the request and directs it to the proper container.

    This is honestly the most confusing and complicated part of self-hosting.

    It’s also all made very simple using Yunohost.

    Also please move away from GoDaddy as soon as possible. Popular alternatives would be NameCheap or Porkbun.

    • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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      3 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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        3 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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        3 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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          3 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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            3 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.