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Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO (betakit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I decided to experiment a bit with Headscale when the wg-easy v15 update broke my chained VPN setup. Got it all set up with Headplane for a UI, worked amazingly, until I learned I was supposed to set it all up on a VPS instead and couldn't actually access it if I wasn't initially on my home network, oops.

I might play around with it again down the road with a cheap VPS, didn't take long to get it going, but realistically my setup's access is 95% me and 5% my wife so Wireguard works fine (reverted back to wg-easy v14 until v15 allows disabling ipv6 though, since that seemed to be what was causing the issues I've been seeing).

[–] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does it need to be on a VPS? It seems to work on a home network when I played around with it.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well a VPS or an exposed service, but I feel like the latter ends up somewhat defeating the purpose anyway.

When running locally (not exposed), it worked great until I tried to make the initial connection from mobile data - can't establish a connection to headscale if it can't reach it in the first place. Unless I'm mistaken, the headscale service needs to be publicly accessible in some way.

[–] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh gotcha yes it does. Are you on CGNAT with your ISP so you can't forward ports?

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, but personally I have no need to expose anything and would rather avoid the security headaches and such that come with it