I think i will wait till i can get an umbrel home device i dont really want to have to pay a monthly fee for a vps i understand ill still have to grab a domain and since i dont have a static ip ill have to setup a dynamic dns with a client on my system i think idk
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👍 umbrel works too. Just bear in mind that it is not a public relay. Umbrel does not allow external access to the relay for everyone. Umbrel is a private "home" server.
I run my relay inhouse as well with dyndns. Not a big deal.
Yeah people install tail scale I think then that revere proxies into it or something
Tailscale works fine if you only want to use it as personal relay (for yor data only). Won't work as public relay.
Instead of getting a dedicated node , consider looking at #ProxMox.
You can then run your own VPSs.
This makes backup of the entire relay node easier.
Later you can add more machines and build it into a cluster.
I've never had experience with them but I can try