I have been using Tailscale VPN with my servers for about 6 months now and I would recommend it to anyone.
I’m running it on both of my Proxmox machines, my laptop, a raspberry pi, and my Android phone. It makes it super easy and secure to access my local services while away from my house.
Very simple set up, minimal initial configuration, and versatile.
There are apps for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS.
Is anyone else currently using Tailscale? I’d like to hear what you all think.
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What is the benefit of this over just running Wireguard?
It’s a mesh network unlike plain Wireguard, and it’s much easier to set up (with the caveat that there’s a third party involved to coordinate connections and stuff)
Isn’t tailscale just a company abstracting over a more barebones VPN? I haven’t looked into it, but want to operate a VPN into my home network in the future.
Why would I choose tailscale over just selfhosting wireguard?
It’s not self-hosted, I refuse to use anything that relies on any third party
Check out Headscale, pretty stable on my end
I tried it, its great if you want to get started. or you want to run a vpn on a server that doesnt support wireguard. My main gripe with the client is that it can’t do high speeds, it’s just too cpu bound. Like going close to a gigabit transfer.
With wireguard I was able to get to 98% gigabit transfer. It was fine for a month I was using it, in the end I just setup a wireguard mesh with Netmaker.
There is headscale where you can run your own hosted central server, so you’re not using the tailscale one.
In the end netmaker did what I wanted, however they tend to introduce bit of changes in their releases, so if you’re not super technical it might pose a challenege with upgrading until they reach a super stable version. Like jump from 0.10.X to 0.20 had some big changes for the whole netmaker internals. Bit that does not impact wireguard connectivity.
I was using tailscale to transport files between devices quickly but I got an email about a vulnerability that leaked some info. I don’t even use it for the vpn part so I just made a protal on a vps that I use now for file transfer. Tailscale was pretty fast at that though, and they were open about the exploit, so I think they’re pretty cool.
I run a single headscale node on one of my free Oracle OCI instances, and connect about a dozen devices to it. No fear of adding friends either, since it’s free.
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No, it isn’t. But there is a self hosted Foss version of it (headscale) that the developers actively support.
The clients are open source, the coordination server isn’t
One common criticism about Tailscale is it has too many features for a networking product, which increase the likelihood of bugs that can lead to security compromise (e.g. Tailscale SSH ), especially when compromised tailscale network means the malicious actors have full access to your internal network.
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You only get 3 users with the free version
how many do you want? I only use 1 and have 4 networks with multiple subnet routers in failover in each network.
Anyone like me, one or two is fine. If you’re a business, that won’t be sufficient.
Fair enough.
I like it, but it consumes copious amounts of battery on my Android phone. I only use it for 1)
sshand 2) services that I don’t want / need to be accessible over the Internetyou use tailscale for ssh instead of termux?
I didn’t know what Termux was before this
But if it’s ssh on Android, I use Termius (which I haven’t used all that much tbh)
