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If you are still port forwarding in 2026, you are solving the wrong problem. I just connected Ollama running on my Mac to a Hostinger VPS using Tailscale. Total time: about 90 seconds. - Zero firewall rules. - Zero exposed IPs. - No router changes. My local Llama 3 now answers API calls from a cloud n8n workflow, securely, over a private encrypted mesh. My ISP sees nothing unusual. My router remains untouched. Most Indian founders think they must choose between: Local = private but isolated Cloud = accessible but exposed That tradeoff is outdated. Tailscale assigns each machine a private 100.x IP that behaves like a LAN address, even if one device is in Mumbai and the other is on a VPS in Bangalore. Your Mac and VPS communicate as if they are on the same internal network. The setup is simple. On Mac: - brew install tailscale - sudo tailscale up - tailscale ip -4 - Copy the 100.x IP. On VPS: curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh sudo tailscale up Now both machines are on the same private mesh. Start Ollama on your Mac: - OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0 ollama serve From the VPS, test the connection: - curl http://100.x.x.x:11434/api/tags - If you receive JSON with your models, the tunnel is live. Inside n8n, set the Ollama base URL to: http://100.x.x.x:11434 That is it. - No nginx. - No SSL certificates. - No static IP requests. - No reverse proxy subscriptions. For Indian SaaS founders, this changes the cost equation completely. Run Mixtral or Llama on your local machine at zero monthly compute cost. Let your VPS handle public webhooks and queues on a ₹399 plan. You get production automation backed by local GPU power, without paying enterprise cloud rates. The competitive edge is not the model. It is the architecture. You keep: • Local compute • Cloud automation • Zero exposed ports • Encrypted private networking The technical barrier is almost zero. The real question is not whether this works. It is whether you are willing to keep your stack simple enough to win. Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@GeeksGrow?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/varun_bhambhani/