Tailscale is a SaaS mesh-VPN service that makes your devices, servers, and applications accessible securely and effortlessly, from anywhere in the world. With Tailscale, connections are encrypted end-to-end using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

Tailscale is simple to use, and effortless to set up. The service handles complex network configurations on your behalf so you don’t have to. Network connections between devices pierce firewalls and routers as if they weren’t there, allowing for direct connections without the need to manually configure port forwarding or poke holes in your firewall. It also allows for connection roaming so that existing connections stay alive even when working remotely or switching between different networks, whether those networks are wired, cellular or WiFi.

Building on top of a secure network fabric, Tailscale offers speed, stability, and simplicity over traditional VPNs.

Tailscale is fast and reliable. Unlike traditional VPNs, which tunnel all network traffic through a central gateway server, Tailscale creates a peer-to-peer mesh network backed by a global network of encrypted relay servers.

The Tailscale approach avoids centralization where possible, resulting in both higher throughput and lower latency as network traffic can flow directly between machines. Additionally, decentralization improves stability and reliability by reducing single points of failure.

With MagicDNS, you don’t have to deal with IP addresses — users can SSH or FTP into devices, transfer files, or access a web server or database using a human-readable hostname.

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