Do you have a free backup to WD's servers if it goes down? Tailscale increased free plan user limit from 1 to 3 and device cap to 100 also… unlimited subnets

Tailscale increased free plan user limit from 1 to 3 and device cap to 100 also… unlimited subnets

Tailscale is mesh network like a VPN that allows you to access your infrastructure and best of all the personal plan is free and now with expanded functionality.

Tailscale can replace all the core functions of the Western Digital severs which had the misfortune of a forced shut down between Apr 2 and Apr 10, 2023. If any My Cloud Home user had installed MCH’s ‘enable local access’ and a free Tailscale service and free subnet router prior to the WD servers disruption, he would have had no interruption at all, locally or remotely.

This has been discussed back in January 2023 here: NOT SUPPORTED June 2023 Local drive mounting via WD Discovery for My Cloud Home desktop ends **with Tailscale Fix DIY

Fundamentals are simple: they install a virtual internet adapter on your client and add additional IP per device they do much more like you can configure one of the nodes to act as standard VPN node (exit node) but that is the basics.

What’s new?

They updated the pricing aka free plan got more than one user (3*) and device cap got increased to 100.

Good question. The name comes from ‘tailnet’ and ‘scale’. Tailscale shows how easy it could be to go from subnets in private networks and scale up to small business and enterprise level without very much configuration and complexity.

What is a tailnet?

A tailnet is your private network. When you log in for the first time to Tailscale on your phone, laptop, desktop, or cloud VM, a tailnet is created.

For users on the Free plan, you are a tailnet of many devices and up to 3 users. Each device gets a private Tailscale IP address in the CGNAT range and every device can talk directly to every other device, wherever they are on the internet.

For businesses, organizations, and other plan users, a tailnet is many devices and many users. It can be based on your Microsoft Active Directory, your Google Workspace, a GitHub organization, Okta tenancy, or other identity provider namespace.

Possible alternatives, except not for HOME users. It is unlikely that HOME users could learn enough about VPN networks to set up a software subnet router behind CGNATs in less than ten minutes as they can with Tailscale which is based on Wireguard encryption but made easier with a secure O-Auth2, OpenID and fully encrypted point to point connection without new firewall rules and configuration.