Hey everyone. This is probably a super noob question, but I’m very much just an amateur when it comes to self-hosting.
I host several services that I access locally through 192.whatever:####, and when I occasionally need remote access, I use Tailscale and access through 100.whatever: ####. The duplicate bookmarks is mildly annoying though.
Can I just buy a personal domain, and have all my services be coolname.com:#### for both local and Tailscale access? Is that as simple a process as I want it to be?
Edit: I appreciate all the comments and I’ll probably just use Tailacale’s MagicDNS for simplicity, but one or my (unwritten, my bad) goals was to have one URL that works locally and remotely, regardless of Tailscale. I don’t leave Tailscale constantly connected because it overheats my phone (which already has terrible battery life).
You may not even need to buy a domain. You could use one like me.internal with something like split DNS - where if you come from your internal network you get one response (internal 192.x.y.z), and when you come from tailnet you get the tailnet addresses. You would need to set your DNS server to this one on your home network and the tailnet, ensure it’s set up to forward everything it doesn’t know you your ISP resolvers or like 1.1.1.1 as you normally have set up. If it’s all private and you don’t want public access then a public domain doesn’t benefit you.