I have self hosted immich on Debian on my homelab. I have also setup tailscale to be able to access it outside my home.

Sometime ago, I was able to purchase a domain of my choice from GoDaddy. While I am used to hosting stuff on Linux, I’ve never exposed it for access publicly. I want to do that now.

Is it something I can do within tailscale or do I need to setup something like cloudflare? What should I be searching for to learn and implement? What precautions to take? I would like to keep the tailscale thing too.

PS: I would like to host immich as a subdomain like photos.mydomain.com.

Thanks!

  • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    This is honestly the most confusing and complicated part of self-hosting.

    I agree! It took me years to finally decide to buckle down and wrap my head around what a “reverse proxy” is. Once I figured it out things became so much more usable and fun.

    Combined with DNS redirects in my LAN (to get around NAT loopback), things are very easy to use.

    • Ænima@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      You sound like me with Docker. Still unsure how to use that shit but haven’t sat down to really try again, either.

      I agree, reverse proxy was also a little mind numbing before I really buckled down and read/watched a bunch of info on it. I learn best by examples and try-fail, but that’s hard to do with live services.