Headscale is the tailscale backend server

Yeah but they have a new system where you either pay annually for new updates, or the new “forever” license is something like $249.

Good to know, thanks. I haven’t tried anything else since the ~2 years I’ve started but who knows what the future holds. If unraid prices go any higher than they just increased to i may start looking at other options.

Just to add on since you mentioned unraid; i was a complete noob to self hosting and docker and unraid helped me learn the basics by dipping my toes in with their community apps store and then later with docker compose. Highly recommend if you’re just starting out and learning.

I have caddy on a vps that serves as a tailscale exit node and also reverse proxies over the tailnet. My pfsense router is also in the tailnet and exposes some subnet ip addresses to the tailnet. So for example I have public domain watch.example.com hits my caddy and gets proxied to internal IP 192.168.31.48 which is my jellyfin docker.

I’ve had immich running in a VM as a snap distribution for almost a year now and the experience has been leaps and bounds easier than maintaining my own immich docker container. There have been so many breaking changes over the few years I’ve used it that it was just a headache. This snap version has been 100% hands off “it just works”.

https://snapcraft.io/immich-distribution