I self-host services at home, but I don't want to expose my home IP to the world. I also don't want my server to be hammered.
So I rented a cheap VPS and installed HAProxy as a front to expose my home-hosted services, and I can manager my cluster exactly as I did before.
@thibaultamartin Nice, I do something very similar.
@thibaultamartin Interesting, haven't come across Infrawire before. Their VPSs are super cheap, but they don't have a proper cloud stack (no API or the ability to boot your own images).
@thibaultamartin I'm installing Pangolin right now so interested in what others are doing. Hadn't come across HAProxy so thanks.
BTW your Infrawire link goes to Wireguard.
Also the Infrawire website certificate has expired according to CloudFlare.
Thanks for sharing. I'll see how Pangolin goes.
@thibaultamartin I had the same thought after switching ISP because they say the IP is dynamic. It hasn't changed yet in 2 months but if it does I'll run caddy on my vps and route back in over netbird to home. I probably should just do it anyway but so many other tasks to do 😊
WIll look into this! I am currently using Tailscale.
@thibaultamartin interresting, is the VPS physically close to your home ? Has the additionnal routing a time impact ?
@thibaultamartin totally agree, this setup makes sense: but it also sucks that the internet is such a dumpster fire, so yet more resources have to be wasted..
The internet is shit, therefore in order to have a home server, I must:
Pay for a VPS (cheap, but still), which runs an entire OS (reserving 2 GB mem+25 GB storage), continuously installs software updates, wraps all requests in VPN.. and on the tinfoil-hat level we've just given a VPS provider VPN access to our home network.
@thibaultamartin FWIW, the Infrawire link points to wireguard.com, instead of - I believe - infrawire.fr.
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