frame the public server as common to all three, not a cost of offscale
"offscale runs on a publicly reachable server" read as a demand offscale makes and the easy route does not. It is not. Tailscale's coordination server is publicly reachable too — they run it for you, and that is the entire difference between option 3 and hosting it yourself. Said that way round, the requirement stops being a reason not to self-host and becomes what self-hosting means. Same sentence in all three places: the menu entry, the branch taken when 1 is chosen, and the long answer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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echo " neither — it runs headscale's open-source code. What changes is"
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echo " the work: managed from an app rather than a terminal, and"
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echo " enrolling a device is a link and a tap."
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echo " It runs somewhere publicly reachable — a small VPS — not on this"
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echo " machine and not at home. Every device has to be able to find it,"
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echo " including the ones that are not on your network, so it needs an"
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echo " address that resolves from anywhere."
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echo " offscale — just like headscale, and just like Tailscale's own"
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echo " service — needs to run on a publicly reachable server of its"
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echo " own. A small VPS is enough. Not this machine, not behind a home"
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echo " router: every device that joins has to find it, including phones"
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echo " on mobile data. The only difference from option 3 is who runs"
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echo " that server."
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echo " Follow that setup through first, then come back here with its"
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echo " address and a key."
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echo " https://officer.dev/infrastructure/offscale.html#install"
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# Where it runs matters more than how it installs, and is the thing people
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# get wrong: a coordination server at home is unreachable from exactly the
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# devices a private network exists to reach.
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echo " Where it runs: somewhere publicly reachable, on its own — a small"
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echo " Where it runs: on a publicly reachable server of its own — a small"
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echo " VPS is enough. Not on this machine, and not behind a home router."
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echo " Every device that joins has to find it, including phones on mobile"
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echo " data and laptops in other buildings, so it needs an address that"
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echo " resolves from anywhere. That is true of headscale too; it is a"
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echo " property of being the thing everyone checks in with."
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echo " resolves from anywhere."
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echo ""
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echo " This is not something offscale asks for and the others do not. It"
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echo " is true of headscale, and it is true of Tailscale — their"
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echo " coordination server is publicly reachable too, they simply run it"
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echo " for you. That is the whole of the difference between choosing"
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echo " option 3 and choosing to host it yourself."
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echo ""
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echo " What it does that plain headscale does not:"
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echo " · installs in one command on that server, certificates included"
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