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What do people here think of Nebula? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been playing around with self hosting for file sharing, backups, and a handful of other ideas I might one day get round to. I like the idea of a mesh VPN and being able to, for example, connect a travelling laptop to a 'host' laptop nearby, though my only public ip is a VPS in another country.

Of all the options I found, I liked the look of Nebula most. Fiddly in some places, but it's working nicely for me, and I appreciate some of the simplicity of design.

I'm wondering if people here have much experience of it, though? My biggest concern is over its future. With,

  1. The Defined Networking site focusing on making money off it, and
  2. The Android app doesn't allow full configuration (including the firewall, so I can't host a website from a phone) but - I heard - does if you use Defined Networking's paid service for configuration,

makes me worry they might be essentially trying to deprecate viable FOSS Nebula in favour of a paid or controlled service.

Any thoughts? Insight?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Netbird is easier to use although it is a little less developed

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I took a quick look at the GitHub repo - selfhosted Netbird looks harder and more resource hungry, not easier! At least compared to Nebula.