Figured I’d give Netbird a go, glad I did because I can self host extremely easily by using the new services feature.
You specify a subdomain, point to a peer, specify a protocol and port, and you are good. NetBird fetches you the certificate and your site goes live fast.
I can use my Immich with my mobile data now.
Edit: Note that I choose to self host NetBird, and haven’t really used the service they provide all that much.
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Detect is way too expensive because of the amount of unique visitors you get. When you federate and post, you’ll see your unique visitors climb fast.
Lemmy.ca gets it free I think because they are a non profit and deflect is being generous.
I love to hear about a Canadian alternative.
Where is this hosted? What jurisdiction is netbird in?
Netbird is a European company headquartered in Berlin. It’s fully FOSS and you can self-host the entire stack, unlike Tailscale which relies on a third party implementation.
There’s a script on their github that makes setup super easy.
That said, I’ve no idea where their servers are, if you opt to use their servers instead of hosting your own.
Edit: oh yeah, they also have a YouTube channel with updates and guides.
lmao
What’s the advantage of this over cloudflare and a reverse proxy? It does the certificate management for you as well?
Not routing all your unencrypted traffic through a company located in an dictatorship
So? It’s just a reverse proxy?
Then it doesnt solve the purpose of Cloudflare which also has WAF.
And that can (for example) be done with CrowdSec.
Crowdsec is OSS, but probably not fully autonomous because it needs the hivemind to really work it’s intended purpose.
Other than that it’s a fancy fail2ban.Thus I need to ask: What does Netbird better?
Independence since no cloud flare
I’m an oldhead on hosting. I have an semi-old server running in a cabinet in my office space at home, which runs an nginx reverse proxy. My DNS records are maintained on the side of the webhost where I have my domain (and email inbox) registered. These records point directly to my WAN IP, so a lookup of my domain would instantly show my public IP.
I host a couple of services on that server, some for myself, some for friends. One of them is a Jellyfin instance.
I’m a bit lost in the technobabble, would Netbird help me hide my IP from a lookup, and solve things like DDoS protection / AI scraping, without me needing all kinds of wireguard apps etc?
I know its superficial, but I find it important that when I’m visiting my dad’s, I can watch a film on the Chromecast from my server, so putting a vpn in front of that would mean to screw with that.
I applied to work for them. Insta-rejected :/
Must be amazing
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Replaced a self hosted Wireguard/OVPN setup that was used to navigate corporate/public networks with Netbird a few months ago and haven’t looked back. Never having hosted Tailscale, I am impressed with the flexibility and routing an overlay VPN offers, particularly with Netbird’s management UI. The project itself seems well maintained and the team regularly adds new features, many of which I have not bothered to explore yet.
Give it a go I say.I really wanted to keep it after deciding to switch from Tailscale, but it’s mobile app is draining my phone’s battery. It also disconnects without automatically reconnect. Now, I’m in the process of setting OpenZiti up.
How’s your experience with NetBird’s mobile app?
There is an alternative unofficial app available on F-Droid called JetBird.
It is as valid as the official one.To reduce battery usage, you may want to try Netbird’s Lazy Connections feature.
just curious, why move away from tailscale?
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Didn’t downvote you, and I get what you are saying, but in another way I don’t. What makes every other country safer? Nothing that would happen here in the USA couldn’t happen or is happening in any other country. Oh, and this has nothing to do with people trash talking the US. I do it every day I’m awake. However, for those who go with this line of thought, I honestly want to know what you think Tailscale is going to do with your encrypted traffic? Because the day the world finds out that America has cracked strong ciphers, is the day you are going to see a lot of panic and movement on this planet. And I would certainly love to make that announcement. It’ll be my going out 15 minutes of fame.
A lot of people are boycotting as many things from the U.S. as they can because of the warmongering paedophile, and his cadre of paedo crooks.
It’s not exactly exciting to buy into products when you have that stinky orange mess breathing down your neck about how he’s going to invade your continent and annex countries.
I am one of them. I am from Italy and simply do not want to support any US-based company any more, independently from their own stance on anything.
Aye, same. I’m Swedish. Not thrilled about the U.S. threatening to invade Greenland, or kidnapping heads of state. Denmark has been sucking up to the U.S. a lot through the years which goes to show that you can’t trust the U.S., ever.
Shout-out for pangolin. Betbird looks interesting too!
I just looked it up and pangolin is based in the us. Since it’s selfhosted the impact is little but if a government turns bad (and theirs has) it poses a risk. Even if it’s open source I don’t read the code and verify every update. Hmm
