I’ve been setting up a music server on my home server recently, looking to move away from private hosting options like iBroadcast, but I’ve hit a bit of a snag when it comes to actually accessing my server when away from home.
The two most common recommendations I’ve seen are Cloudflare and OpenVPN. My router supports OVPN access, so I gave that a try, but couldn’t ever actually make it work. I don’t know for sure, but I think it’s probably something with my ISP that I can’t really easily work around. As far as Cloudflare goes, setting up a tunnel requires you to have a domain set up with them even if you’re just using Warp, and since I don’t have one, that’s not an option.
What other good options are there for remote access? I’m running Open Media Vault as my server. Thanks.
Edit: Based on responses, it looks like Tailscale is the way to go since it’s all private to me. Thanks everyone!
Question, do you also use the same domains for the local network as the remote connections? And if yes, are you just accepting the round trip to the VPS or do you have a shortcut to stay in the local network? Because, while I have an otherwise identical setup, I put caddy on the local server, so that I can eventually use local DNS to point to the local address
No, I use a second reverse proxy for my local network. For example, I can resolve navidrome either via my VPS using
navidrome.mydomain.netor directly in my local network with the addressnavidrome.local.mydomain.net. I also configured the local caddy reverse proxy with a DNS provider module to get LetsEncrypt certificates for my local addresses.