You could cut Tor out here and do a SSH reverse tunnel for far better reliability.

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Wouldn't I need to expose ports at home then?

No, presuming you have the webserver on that VPS serving up the invoices, you SSH from the node at home into the VPS with a reverse tunnel and the VPS box is now able to hit the node at home through that SSH tunnel, without exposing ports at home.

Know of any guides to achieve this?

Not off hand. Look at the -L and -R flags in ssh

You've already lost me 🤣

hey

just looking at this

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/46235/how-does-reverse-ssh-tunneling-work

rough if you try and avoid the cmdline by default 😜

Thanks man. I aim to remain a GUI warrior until my final breath.

you're missing out on so much 😂

But gaining so much time to do other actual exciting stuff 😜

I guess we all have to make sacrifices somewhere

there isn't a GUI afaik but tailscale works well for exposing private services in your network without opening ports at home.

In fact you just jogged my memory, it wasn't a Tor proxy I'm using it's this.

https://orange.surf/public-btcpay-umbrel-tailscale/

ahh yeah that makes sense. I wish start9 had a built-in integration with tailscale.

They've been teasing a network/connectivity upgrade for a while now. Hope it comes soon.

years, bro. years! not too long ago I had an interaction with a start9 developer who said that clearnet functionality is being worked on but they are also putting alot of effort into a router. so new hardware coming as well.

Will probably buy 🤣