Selfhosted

39224 readers

401 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Looking for an alternative to cloudflare tunnel (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi, I moved this year to another city, because my internet provider didn't give me a dedicated ipv4 address I can't use a dyndns like duckdns. Another thing to mention is, that I have a dslite tunnel. So I can't set up dyndns...

So my recent setup is a truenas server sitting under my desk. This is connected via cloudflared to the cloudflare tunnel. There I have my services like seafile or nextcloud configured. They are all pointing to a traefik instance that routes the traffic to the right container.

So to summarize what I have:

Truenas server
- multiple services
dslite tunnel
own domain
Cloudflare tunnel
v-server
- Nginx
- docker

To visualize the route the traffic is going

Internet - cloudflare tunnel - cloudfared docker - traefik docker - service (nextcloud) docker

So I want to setup something on my v-server that routes the traffic to my homeserver (truenas)

Internet - DNS (cloudflare) - v-server - (magic docker service on truenas) - traefik docker - service (nextcloud) docker

Does someone have an idea how to solve this?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Install Tailscale (1) on the VPS and (2) in a Docker container on TrueNAS. The Tailscale container #2 will replace the cloudflared container. Set the Tailscale #2 node as a subnet router exposing the Traefik container's netmask (you probably already know how to get networking going between two Docker containers).

What you'll end up with:

Internet -> DNS (your domain) -> VPS public IP (Tailscale node #1 ===> Tailscale node #2 in Docker on TrueNas) -> Traefik -> web apps on your TrueNAS

Tailscale is not bandwidth-limited like Cloudflare because the nodes only use Tailscale's servers for the initial rendez-vous (to get out of NAT), then you will use the direct bandwidth between the VPS and your home connection.

You will also be able to use other DNS services if you want, because you won't be forced to use Cloudflare's anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This actually sounds insanely cool. Without having looked at their documentation, can you make a rough statement about the required hardware power for the VPS, especially if traffic may include bandwith heavy stuff like movie streaming or large data up/downloads?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

In that case you should probably give up using your own domain and take the one from Tailscale because they would intermediate direct connections whenever possible.

The main limitation on the VPS would be bandwidth as well as total transfer, not so much processing power because their just be moving stuff through. They all come with limits.