Homelab

Getting a photo library online is one thing. Uploading a large video from outside your home network is another. I was exposing my home Immich instance through Cloudflare Tunnel, but a large-video upload ran into Cloudflare’s proxy upload-size restriction. I wanted to keep the photos at home while changing the path used to reach them. The solution: a small VPS as the public entry point, Tailscale to reach the homelab, and Caddy to forward requests to Immich. I used TierHive, which provides a managed HAProxy frontend and HTTPS certificates alongside its NAT VPS instances. ...

If you like me have been wondering on how to have nice links in your homelab without having to pay for a domain and a certificate, this post is for you. Especially if you want to use a subdomain of a free domain like DuckDNS, you can get a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt using the DNS-01 challenge. DNS-01 challenge The DNS-01 challenge is a way to prove that you own a domain by adding a specific DNS record. This is the most secure way to get a certificate as it doesn’t require any server to be reachable from the internet. ...