I have the occasional need to make a local/self-hosted service be reachable on the world wide web. However, I do not want to host them on my cloud VMs for reasons such as:

• RAM: I am currently using the lowest-priced tier of VMs, which means that I get only 1 GB of RAM
• Storage: For the similar reason as RAM, my disk is 25 GB
• CPU: Having access to more than 1 core would be nice

Although the easy answer is to provision a bigger VM, I have a small Proxmox cluster that is more than capable of running VMs and (LXC) containers with access to more compute, RAM, and storage. Also, running them in separate instances is also great for separation.

While services like Tailscale Funnel or Cloudflare Tunnel exists, I wanted to roll my own as a learning exercise.

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