Self-Hosting a Private Search Engine with SearXNG, Docker Compose, and TailScale
Hello and welcome to my blog! I'm Alex from TailScale, and in this blog post, I'll show you how to set up your own self-hosted search engine using SearXNG, Docker Compose, and TailScale. SearXNG is a fully open-source, self-hosted search engine that lets you combine multiple search engines into one place. There's no tracking, no ads, and it's fully privacy-respecting. We'll start by creating a runtime for our search instance. I'll be using Proxmox, but you can use any virtualization platform you like. Once we have our runtime, we'll install Docker and TailScale. Next,…