Is there room here to ask about software? I've been interested lately about getting into hosting my own server for multiple things. It'd be nice to be able to access it remotely for files for work, as a media server locally and remotely, and to access my Stable Diffusion instance remotely. I suppose those all require different solutions right? I'd love to know more!

[–] niartenyaw@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

not that i don't think you could ask about them here, but there are a number of self host communities that you should check out, here are two of the bigger ones:

!selfhosted@lemmy.world !selfhost@lemmy.ml

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Amazing, thanks - I'll look into them.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

tailscale is about the lowest effort way of doing this.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, hadn't heard of it.

So I guess it's a VPN software - would that solve all three needs in one? I can see how it works for remote files but not as well how it would help with the other two.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yeah it's a mesh vpn setup, it's pretty slick, as long as everything you want is net accessible, it can pretty much be accessed using tailscale. Stable diffusion web interface for example, could be made accessible over the network, though you might need to do a reverse proxy or ssh tunnel or something like that, but it should be possible.

I've been using as a vpn proxy for mobile devices on my server network (or externally), i just have my subnet shared through the primary node, and then other devices can access them directly through tailscale.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Amazing sounds like a great place to start! And sounds like I have plenty to learn to get it working.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

yeah it should be a pretty good starting point, the rest should generally be a mix of "fairly trivial" and "relatively fucked up"

but that's part of the fun.

[–] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ZeroTier is another alternative. Don't really know the differences but if you're googling about tailscale it might be worth a check.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Nice thanks, always good to have options