is anyone running their small #mastodon instance entirely locally (#homelab) and then exposes it via #cloudflare or #tailscale tunnels?

[frytg@beoriginal.social]

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

[mijndert@toot.community]

@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.

[jorijn@toot.community]

@mijndert @FRYTG

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

platform/manifests/applications/cloudflared at main · toot-community/platform

Platform code for the toot.community Mastodon instance - platform/manifests/applications/cloudflared at main · toot-community/platform

GitHub (github.com)

[frytg@beoriginal.social]

@jorijn @mijndert interesting to know! i might have a tendency to go with tailscale, probably need to look up the performance and latency differences

[matt@mastodon.lqx.net]

@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.