Engineering, pricing, and field reports from building HostAnywhere.
A contractor needed SSH access to a NAS in my basement for a two-week project. I gave them narrow, time-bound access without opening router ports, configuring a VPN, or provisioning cloud infrastructure.
An honest retrospective on consolidating iCloud, Tailscale, and Cloudflare Tunnel into HostAnywhere. What stayed, what went, what's still missing six months later.
An honest field report on backing up my iPhone (Photos, Videos, Contacts, Calendars, Health) to a Mac mini in my basement, end-to-end encrypted. What works after six months and what doesn't.
Stop trusting hotel and coffee-shop Wi-Fi. Route your laptop's entire internet through a device you own at home — with automatic failover when home goes down.
A practical walkthrough of identity-bound networking, least-privilege access rules, and optional posture checks for a 5-person engineering team — starting at $9/mo flat.
How HostAnywhere uses CrowdStrike Falcon ZTA scores to gate access — without paying for a full ZTNA suite. Setup, examples, and limits.
Conditional Access gates Microsoft 365 on Intune compliance. What about your self-hosted apps, internal services, and homelab? Here's how to wire that up.
Per-seat SaaS pricing punishes growth and rewards keeping team size artificially small. Here's why HostAnywhere charges flat-fee per network, and what we gave up to do it.
We picked WireGuard for the HostAnywhere mesh instead of building our own protocol. Here's what we gained and what we honestly gave up.