As I mentioned in another post don’t need another party just grab a free vps and head scale as the coordinator and it’s all yours runs great lol
For this you’re looking for a reverse proxy and also hosting your own internal dns. Reverse proxy to mask the ports part, and dns to handle the url names. There’s a ton out there, nginx proxy manager, traefik, caddy, swag, for the reverse proxy. Pihole, adguard home, technitium, windows server, bind9 and others for dns.
And yes you can use tailscale to reach inter Al services without the need of ooenening a port for the VPN. Since with tailscale the VPN is hosted by tailscale, every client you connect connects to their cloud as a middle man.
Currently that arr stack is in LAN only, and I access them use laptop IP:PORT. I was wondering not considering the internet, can I just use some normal url to access my server without IP:Port? Something like “sonarr.homeserver.something”
DuckDNS is a good solution to do this. Adguard Home also has an option to redirect DNS requests to sonarr.homesever.something to IP:PORT but it would require you make AdGuard Home your internal DNS server with upstream DNS for external requests.
If I do want to access Plex from outside my LAN and port forwarding isn’t an option. I don’t mind VPNs, I can use tailscale?
Yes. I would make sure that the VPN that you use is wireguard friendly. Not all VPN providers support Wireguard.
Simplest way is to just edit your hosts files and add a host name. You’ll have to include the port in the URL still when you type it in.
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Do you have any good documentation/guides in setting this up?
Wow I’ve never heard of vps or headscale, and thought oracle was something they did in the 80s. I need to go down this rabbit hole 
just a beginner question, when on tailscale I am forced to use the IP:PORT urls, does using your way allow for using my own subdomain names for different services ?? like plex.domain.com jellyfin.domain.com I wish to have this feature because I want services to work using my custom domains irrespective of whether I am in my network or using tailscale
Ah thought it was only a hosted option. But still, that means trusting the VPS provider with the ability to route traffic into your home network, keeping your account for the VPS provider safe, and then having to maintain the VPS and keep
It updated for security patches etc.
For the purposes of accessing your Plex or jellyfin server, it’s much less complicated with less things to go wrong to just open up the wireguard port on your router and host the VPN locally.
A VPS provider would be another party.
There are better VPS providers, Oracle are trash.
I personally use Racknerd.
I believe their Black Friday deals are always active
+1 for racknerd
Also recommend Ionos their £1 a month server gives 2GB ram with unlimited egress traffic my racknerd has 4TB/momth
Sure others are better but oracles the best free deal especially if you don’t want to worry about egress bandwidth, or want to play with arm with a really good amount of ram (2 x86 and 1 arm free)
I feel like people shit on oracles vps for no real reason especially when we’re discussing free hosting and not business hosting
We’re in self hosting, your home internets gonna have more issues than oracle will have
+1 for racknerd, love them
why is Oracle trash?
free, fast, 200GB storage, and 10TB transfer limit month, and full control over network topology and security. whats not to like?
Mate I work as a sysadmin for multiple clients
Having dealt with Oracle with their free and Paid tiers.
My hate for Oracle goes back years.
Their support is non existent, even when things are clearly their fault
Their billing system is dog shit
Their payment system is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever come across, only card payments and it’s incredibly finicky with which, card type or bank one is with for it to work.
And they just close and bar plenty of their free user accounts with zero warning or reasons (google just how common that occurs)
Oracle treat you like dirt even if you are forking over thousands to them in some cases like my clients
So yeah I’ll shit on them all day long and encourage nobody to ever use them, even if it means paying.
I hosted some stuff on Oracle’s free tier a while back, and was EXTREMELY happy with them… until a couple of days in they decided to delete all my data and refused to provide ANY support at all, except for to tell me that “it was deleted by a system action, and as such there is no way to recover it”. Yeah, right.
People love to shit on oracle but at the end of the day 3 free VPS and most of all 10TB of egress is easily the most in the entire market and for something like this it’s perfect
If your gonna pay their are better hosts but oracles been fucking great for me for years few outages for a couple hours over last 5+ years mostly on the management side not service
My problem with Oracle is that they won’t allow me to sign up.
Doesn’t matter what I do, their free cloud signup portal rejects me. You can Google the issue, some people say you need to email some specific address, others say you need to open a ticket and they’ll do something, but they just told me “we can’t tell you why you’re being rejected” and that was that.
Who said anything about forking over thousands we’re literally talking about using it for free hosting specifically and the fact they’re basically offering the most of anyone
By all means keep offsite backups incase the fuck you but until then they’re the most for the free tier available for home users
I never said they were good or not assholes, just that for free hosting they can’t be beat for what they offer
my thought exactly… with one exception… the sheer number of services and capabilities available with Oracle PAYG is amazing.
What paid hosting do you feel is better ?