Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/shadowjig on 2025-05-13 16:14:28+00:00.

So I finally took a look at setting up Pangolin. And hadn't realized that is required a VPS, which makes sense since it's a reverse tunnel. But I'm trying not to spend more money!!!

Why are people picking Pangolin over setting up Wireguard/Tailscale/or other VPN?

Yes I realize that VPNs would require port forwarding. But in my opinion I'm not seeing the value add for Pangolin? But Tailscale/Headscale provides similar device management. And I don't care about the built in Pangolin proxy, because I already have one set up.

The only real benefit I see is not having to port forward. Which also prevents needing to publish a DNS record that points to your home IP address (it would instead point to the VPS)