<![CDATA[is anyone running their small #mastodon instance entirely locally (#homelab) and then exposes it via #cloudflare or #tailscale tunnels?]]>is anyone running their small instance entirely locally () and then exposes it via or tunnels? really thinking about doing that to save some cloud/vm costs

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e8bd0b14-f62f-4815-bf6f-8278aba3a241/is-anyone-running-their-small-mastodon-instance-entirely-locally-homelab-and-then-exposes-it-via-cloudflare-or-tailscale-tunnelsRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 02:43:41 GMTMon, 13 Apr 2026 11:09:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to is anyone running their small #mastodon instance entirely locally (#homelab) and then exposes it via #cloudflare or #tailscale tunnels? on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:08:52 GMT]]>@FRYTG I run mine out of OCI but have the Elasticsearch for it at home. I think when/if my cable provider's high-split happens and I have a gigabit upstream, I'd make that move and run more things from home.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.lqx.net/users/matt/statuses/116397318622992253https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.lqx.net/users/matt/statuses/116397318622992253Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:08:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to is anyone running their small #mastodon instance entirely locally (#homelab) and then exposes it via #cloudflare or #tailscale tunnels? on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:18:04 GMT]]>@jorijn @mijndert interesting to know! i might have a tendency to go with tailscale, probably need to look up the performance and latency differences

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beoriginal.social/users/FRYTG/statuses/116397118878297601https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beoriginal.social/users/FRYTG/statuses/116397118878297601Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:18:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to is anyone running their small #mastodon instance entirely locally (#homelab) and then exposes it via #cloudflare or #tailscale tunnels? on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:12:17 GMT]]>@mijndert @FRYTG

The entire toot.community instance runs on Cloudflare tunnels. Rock solid. Highly recommend.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/jorijn/statuses/116397096124005843https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/jorijn/statuses/116397096124005843Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:12:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to is anyone running their small #mastodon instance entirely locally (#homelab) and then exposes it via #cloudflare or #tailscale tunnels? on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:11:06 GMT]]>@FRYTG if you have some compute available at home i don't see why not, a cloudflare tunnel is very reliable as well, just have to add a cloudflared container to the setup.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/mijndert/statuses/116397091509771353https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/mijndert/statuses/116397091509771353Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:11:06 GMT