Three-Tier DNS: How I Route to My Homelab From Anywhere
If you self-host services behind a VPS, you’ve probably noticed the inefficiency: you set up app.example.com to point at your VPS, the VPS tunnels traffic home, everything works — but when you access it from your couch, the request still takes a round trip through a data centre to reach a server two metres away. This post covers how I set up DNS so that traffic always takes the shortest path to my home server, regardless of where the request comes from. ...