It’s been a while since I’ve talked about my home lab. Let’s fix that.

Two Domains

For a while, I was using two domains for my lab. One for things hosted on a vps (this and other websites), and one for things hosted at home (MiniFlux and other stuff).¹

This worked, as most stuff I wanted to be publicly sharable, went on the vps. Everything home side, was for me only.

The main issue, is what if I wanted something that I could share with the public, but was too big or too intensive for my small, cheep vps. That would make my home IP available, and I would rather hide that. So I got thinking.

One Domain, To Rule Them All

The more I use something like Tailscale, the more I start thinking, of what I can do with it. My question was “Can I reverse proxy something, from my vps, over tailscale, to a VM on my home network?”. That would hide my home IP, as it would just look like the VPS was handling everything. After a quick test, yes.

This set up makes me pretty happy. I just need to clean up my DNS settings. They work, they could just a little more maintainable.

One Domain to rule them all, One Domain to find them, One Domain to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

• Tolkien (maybe, I think, could be Dune, idk)