Hey everyone. This is probably a super noob question, but I’m very much just an amateur when it comes to self-hosting.
I host several services that I access locally through 192.whatever:####, and when I occasionally need remote access, I use Tailscale and access through 100.whatever: ####. The duplicate bookmarks is mildly annoying though.
Can I just buy a personal domain, and have all my services be coolname.com:#### for both local and Tailscale access? Is that as simple a process as I want it to be?
Edit: I appreciate all the comments and I’ll probably just use Tailacale’s MagicDNS for simplicity, but one or my (unwritten, my bad) goals was to have one URL that works locally and remotely, regardless of Tailscale. I don’t leave Tailscale constantly connected because it overheats my phone (which already has terrible battery life).
For my lab I use a reverse proxy and a local DNS server. I recommend Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) and adguard home for a easy gui.
you can buy a domain (for https that just works) or use the .internal tld reserved for internal use (not over Internet). ex: example.internal.
With a local internal domain: which then you either a) use http b) trust the "self-signed certificates c) create a local root certificate, install a certificate authority that once and use that to sign every websites certificate.
a and b are the simplest. To access websites you set the DNS server as your DNS for each device or point your router and tailscale configs to it.
each service then has a http(s)://service.example.internal that you type in that goes: device > router/tailscale (optional) > adguard > Nginx > service.
for a non internal domain you’d pay yearly or use something like duckdns.org for free. let’s encrypt and self signed is built into NPM.