Vpn

At some point every homelab operator wants to reach their stuff from outside the house, checking on a download, pulling up Jellyfin at a friend’s, hitting the Proxmox web UI from a coffee shop. The wrong way to do this is punching holes in your router’s firewall and forwarding ports straight to internal services. The right way is a VPN that puts your remote device on the same private network as your homelab, so nothing is exposed to the internet at all. WireGuard, Tailscale, and ZeroTier are the three tools homelabbers reach for most, and they’re not really three competing options for the same job, they’re two different approaches with WireGuard sitting underneath one of them. ...