Long story short, I went with wireguard. I’m still thinking of giving cloudflare tunnel a try.
Wow, a lot has happened (I’ve forgotten most of it). My wifi router died a while ago. I had a lot of things set up on it with IP reservations and some ports being forwarded, etc, etc (I have a lot of home automation going on). I immediately bought a new router, should have waited a little, but I needed my “stuff” up and running again. I had a lot of trouble getting things back like they were because the intelligence of my setup was on that router.
I decided I wanted something more robust and easier to setup again in the event of a hardware failure (it will happen again, it’s just a matter of time). The more I looked into it, I really got into self hosting services I use from 3rd parties. I set up a simple home lab running Proxmox on a simple, low power, small form computer that I bought off of Ebay. I also run Proxmox backup server so I have everything backed up. I didn’t realize I could visualize a router in a Virtual Machine. If I had a second ethernet adapter I wouldn’t need the physical router and just run Access Points.
I got what I needed by setting up wireguard. I can easily access my home lab (and mobileraker) when I’m away. When I connect through wireguard when I’m away, it’s just like being on my home network. It works great. Proxmox is a Hypervisor that let’s me run many services easily. I’m still planning on trying out Cloudflare to see if it’s a better option. I’ve been busy setting up other services at the moment, but Cloudflare is on my list.
