Hello I’ve been using cloudflare to get remote access for the couple apps I selfhost, but lately I’ve been hearing about the wonders of tailscale.

It seems that the free tier is enough for my use. Which would be a safe option to have remote access for my 3D printer? Also how are both in terms of privacy?

  • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    If it’s just you, and you’re willing to install it on all your devices, Tailscale is the best option IMO. If you need to share things with others, use CF Tunnels.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    CF CloudFlare
    CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NAT Network Address Translation
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    13 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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  • axzxc1236@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Tailscale server can also be self-hosted, look into headscale.

    From my own experience, I still can’t setup headscale on my Android phone, I think latest tailscale APP fucked up setting custom server function. Don’t install from Google Play

  • flappy@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Cloudflare hates VPNs, so when it comes to privacy, it’s not really a contest.

      • varsock@programming.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        WARP (a client) just connects you to CF’s network.

        If your server is running cloudflared (an outbound-only tunnel) then you can enroll your WARP client to reach your server, while your server is never accessible on the public web. That’s the principal behind Zero Trust.

        While techinically yes, WARP can be considered as a VPN, it is just a secure tunnel to an endpoint. In which case you can argue any point-to-point tunnel is a VPN.