Such a good feeling cancelling my paid tier on Dropbox this week. I’ve been ‘playing’ at self hosting for a few months, and now I’m confident in my infrastructure and processes so I can start turning off some of the cloud things I’ve been paying for.
Dropbox has gone in favor of Syncthing over Tailscale in a hub and spoke arrangement to a VM at home. The main compromise I’ve had to make is on the iOS experience.
The next subscriptions I’ll be cancelling will be Evernote (I have so loved this over the years, but as they’ve added ‘features’ the app experience has degraded to the point where it’s no longer reliable to add notes from my phone). I’m currently trying Obsidian for this , but thinking about a simpler web markdown editor for mobile.
After that, all my Wordpress blogs will be coming home to my VPS, I imagine with some sort of static site generator.
I saw that tailscale uses wireguard. Is there any advantage to using tailscale to deploy it over setting it up myself?
Just simpler. A pure Wireguard setup would be less reliant on commercial infrastructure since Tailscale uses lighthouses to help make the initial connections before they drop back to peer:peer. Sometimes that can’t be done and they relay traffic as well. So the pro is that Tailscale always works and is easy to set up, the con is that you are relying on someone else’s cloud.
If you’re committed to Wireguard, don’t try Tailscale first, or you won’t go back :-)
Helps, thanks! I think I’ll stick to wg just from a purist POV. Also I can afford some downtime for my use case