TailScale
ZeroTier
ngrok
Netmaker
OpenVPN
WireGuard
NetBird
Nextcloud
Vanilla Forums
Discourse
XenForo
phpBB
Forumbee
PunBB
NodeBB
Higher Logic
TailScale Vanilla ForumsVanilla Forums is recommended for businesses, online communities, and organizations looking for a customizable and scalable platform to foster discussions, engage users, and build an active community. It is particularly suitable for those who have some technical expertise or access to developers who can leverage its open-source framework to customize the platform according to specific requirements.
They make the already great wireguard even better! Installation and configuration is a breeze, can easily connect to machines behind firewall(s) without altering anything.
Definitely made life easier.
Based on our record, TailScale seems to be a lot more popular than Vanilla Forums. While we know about 543 links to TailScale, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Vanilla Forums. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Tailscale + exit node for clean IP rotation. - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago
Tailscale is how every machine in the stack is reachable from outside the local network. All four machines are on the same Tailnet, which means I can reach any service from anywhere without opening ports or maintaining a VPN server. - Source: dev.to / 20 days ago
Still the most reliable setup, honestly. SSH into your machine over Tailscale (or Mosh if your connection is rubbish), reattach your tmux session, carry on. Free, works everywhere, been around forever. The downside is it's all terminal and you need to know your way around. Not exactly mobile-friendly either. Typing SSH commands on a phone keyboard is proper painful. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
The entire system runs on three machines connected via Tailscale mesh VPN:. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
ClickHouse's BYOC also uses an outbound-only channel for management traffic. Control-plane connectivity from the ClickHouse VPC to the customer's BYOC VPC is provided over a Tailscale connection that is outbound-only from the customer's BYOC VPC. ClickHouse engineers must request time-bound, audited access through an internal approval system; they can only reach system tables and infrastructure components, never... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
I used to use phpBB back in the day. Vanilla forums has seemed interesting to me for a while (https://vanillaforums.com/), I used HostGator back in the day (https://www.hostgator.com/). Source: about 4 years ago
That one seems to be built with Vanilla Forums: https://vanillaforums.com/en/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago
They're blaming their service provider for not working on the weekend, even though they should have been well aware of that when considering them as a service provider and should have planned their migration schedule accordingly. Source: almost 5 years ago
ZeroTier - Extremely simple P2P Encrypted VPN
Discourse - Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
ngrok - ngrok enables secure introspectable tunnels to localhost webhook development tool and debugging tool.
XenForo - Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.
Netmaker - Netmaker automates mesh VPN's and software-defined networks using WireGuard.
phpBB - Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a cheap, credit-card sized computer. The official website uses phpBB for their discussion forums. phpBB is not affiliated with nor responsible for any of the sites listed on the showcase.
