I like tailscale as a replacement for the dogshit enterprise VPNs I have had to use in the past (looking at you, ZScaler). But for personal/single home use it’s overkill.
I used to run a WireGuard server on a raspberry pi with ddns to update dns record on an as needed basis.
Eventually replaced it with my gateways built in WireGuard server which also has ddns enabled
The use cases described by the author are taken care of with a simple wg server. Sure you don’t get the distributed peer network of tailscale but I can live without that.
Yup, port forwarding is always a big win over any VPN, for real. No random stutter, no random disconnection, no random DERP fallback. It's just that ISPs are killing home port forwarding with CGNAT.
I used to run a WireGuard server on a raspberry pi with ddns to update dns record on an as needed basis.
Eventually replaced it with my gateways built in WireGuard server which also has ddns enabled
The use cases described by the author are taken care of with a simple wg server. Sure you don’t get the distributed peer network of tailscale but I can live without that.