Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Red_Con_ on 2025-06-12 20:39:18+00:00.

Hey,

a lot of people around here seem to use tools built on top of Wireguard (Tailscale being the most popular) for a VPN connection even though I believe most people in this sub would be able to just set up a plain Wireguard VPN. That makes me wonder why so many choose not to. I understand solutions like Tailscale might be easier to get up and running but from a security/privacy perspective, why introduce a third party to your setup when you can leave it out? Even though they might be open source, it's still an extra dependency.