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Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO (betakit.com)
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Corporate VPN startup Tailscale secures $230 million CAD Series C on back of “surprising” growth

Pennarun confirmed the company had been approached by potential acquirers, but told BetaKit that the company intends to grow as a private company and work towards an initial public offering (IPO).

“Tailscale intends to remain independent and we are on a likely IPO track, although any IPO is several years out,” Pennarun said. “Meanwhile, we have an extremely efficient business model, rapid revenue acceleration, and a long runway that allows us to become profitable when needed, which means we can weather all kinds of economic storms.”

Keep that in mind as you ponder whether and when to switch to self-hosting Headscale.

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[–] dabe@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Am I totally off-base in thinking that MagicDNS and pluggable DNS nameserver overrides are a huge feature of tailscale?

I love that I can refer to my tailnet devices just via their machine name. I use it everywhere. And also that I can just slot in my NextDNS ID so that any device running tailscale now automatically uses that, and I don’t have to mess with my shared router settings or per device settings. Is all that actually really easy to set up outside of tailscale? Cuz if it is and I just somehow missed that when doing all my research, I’ll happily give plain wireguard or other mesh orchestrators like NetBird a go.

And I already know that mDNS is not the answer. That protocol is simply not reliable enough.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use wireguard and have public DNS refer to private IPs.

For example if my server is accessible at 10.0.0.1 via wireguard then I point *.myserver.mydomain.com to that IP.

Sorry if I've misunderstood your question.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 23 points 3 days ago (10 children)

What's the benefit over just WG?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago

Easier/zero configuration compared to manual WG setup. Takes care of ports and providing transparent relay when no direct connection works.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Your tech illiterate grandma can set it up. It’s that easy.

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think a lot of companies view their free plan as recruiting/advertising

if you use TailScale personally and have a great experience then you'll bring in business by advocating for it at work.

Of course it could go either way, and I don't rely on TailScale (it's my "backup" VPN to my home network)... we'll see, I guess.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

It also doesn't cost them much of anything

Positive PR and little draw backs means that everyone is generally pretty happy

[–] tills13@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Ok and?

[–] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I host headscale on a VPS, is that as seamless of an experience as Tailscale? And would I miss out on features, like the Tailscale dashboard? How does the experience change for me (an admin type) and my users (non-technical types)?

[–] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There are some community webUIs for Headscale, headplane in particular looks pretty good: https://headscale.net/stable/ref/integration/web-ui/

I'm not sure otherwise how different the experience would be.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

pre-emptive pikachu face strike

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