What to consider when making my home server public?

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  • tailscale

    The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

  • Try https://tailscale.com discovered the other day and it works absolute wonder for this use case. You can basically create your personal network across a hybrid topology

  • docker-cloudflare-ddns

    Discontinued A small amd64/ARM/ARM64 Docker image that allows you to use CloudFlare as a DDNS / DynDNS Provider.

  • This Docker container can connect to Cloudflare’s API and automatically update the public IP address listed for your domain.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • ddns-updater

    Container to update DNS records periodically with WebUI for many DNS providers

  • headscale

    An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

  • I've heard good things about Tailscale. You can even self-host the control server!

  • docker-cloudflare

    Discontinued Cloudflare DDNS minimal docker.

  • I'm not sure if you use Cloudflare already but you should along with NGINX Reverse Proxy. Then you could use Cloudflare DDNS so it'll update your IP when it sees a change.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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