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).

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    My personal setup is that I have a VPS running Yunohost, with my own domain, so I added it to my Tailnet and set up redirects. So my navidrome server is pointed at https://navidrome.coolname.com/ via my home server’s Tailscale IP.

    Works well enough for me, but I don’t know anything about these things, so take my example with a pinch of salt.