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Hello I've been using cloudflare to get remote access for the couple apps I selfhost, but lately I've been hearing about the wonders of tailscale.

It seems that the free tier is enough for my use. Which would be a safe option to have remote access for my 3D printer? Also how are both in terms of privacy?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I haven't tried reversing it like that, but I was under the impression that there were no specific servers or clients in WireGuard land and that both devices had to connect to each other and authenticate.

I have never really thought about how the servers of VPN providers are supposed to work if this was the case.

I guess I just got confused when I tried setting it up someday.

I haven't benchmarked it personally but apparently tailscale and WireGuard are very similar in performance due to optimization done by tailscale. I think they wanted to push the improvements upstream but I am not sure if that happened or if it's still waiting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe performance is situationally dependent, so it may or may not be faster, but it theoretically is. I personally choose wireguard over tailscale because it's one less 3rd party involved, not for potential performance increases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's fair. I use Wireguard somewhere else for the same reason.