VPNs Are Killing Productivity

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4 points·CKMo··3 comments

I love Tailscale and think it would be great to have more competition in this space.

Personally I have gone through a lot of trouble setting up VPNs, for some strange reason AWS doesn't offer a fully integrated VPN product so I wound up running OpenVPN on a tiny VPS which should have cost less than $7 a month but the VPS was too small and went crazy swapping and ran up a $200 a month bill swapping on EBS.

I lately had a webapp that was running on my laptop. I built a very powerful home computer and moved the app to it and found that zero trust was a super easy approach to access this application from anywhere with my tablet or laptop. I did not need to fight with the firewall configuration, NAT, any of that. I used to be skeptical of "zero trust" but now I am a believer and hope more people experience the ease.

Glad to hear you've come around on zero trust! How did you apply zero trust to the webapp you mentioned, if I may ask?

Just installed the Tailscale client on my desktop machine, my laptop, and iPad. Logged in with GitHub on all three devices. The desktop machine was assigned a fixed IP and I can just type in an http URL with the ip address and the browser connects from any device.

One nice thing about it is it does the right thing if the client is in my house (connect via the LAN) or if I am out or about. Early on I had the tablet disconnect, but I found out that I just had to restart the Tailscale client and it was back up right away.

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