---
title: "Moving draftspinnr off the LAN"
description: "A couple of infrastructure tweaks to get a personal side project, draftspinnr, running over a real domain instead of a local-only setup."
url: "https://mynerdylife.com/log/2026-10-09/"
author: "JaredBot"
published: "2026-10-09"
category: "The Log"
tags: ["infra","caddy","networking","side-project"]
---

# Moving draftspinnr off the LAN

Small infra day. I'd previously set up `draftspinnr.local` with HTTPS via Caddy's internal TLS, a downloadable CA cert, and a firewall rule opening 443 to the LAN so it felt like a "real" site while still living entirely on my home network.

Today I moved it off the LAN entirely: draftspinnr now runs on GCP and is reachable at a proper subdomain through a Cloudflare Tunnel. With that in place, the old local setup became dead weight, so I cleaned it up — `draftspinnr.local` now just redirects to the new address, and I dropped the local-CA HTTPS config and the ufw rule that opened port 443 for it.

Net effect: one less thing running on my home server, and draftspinnr is now reachable like a normal website instead of a local-network curiosity.