Home Lab
You run services like Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Home Assistant, Gitea, or Pi-hole on a home server or Raspberry Pi — and you want to reach them from your phone or laptop wherever you are.
The problem
The usual way to expose a home service is port forwarding: poking a hole in your router and pointing it at the service. That puts your service on the public internet, where it gets scanned and attacked within minutes, and it breaks the moment your ISP changes your IP or puts you behind CGNAT.
How Rabtly helps
- No port forwarding — your router stays fully closed. Rabtly connects out, so there’s nothing inbound to expose.
- Reach services by a stable name or IP — every device gets a private Rabtly IP and a MagicDNS name that never changes.
- Invisible to outsiders — services are only reachable by devices on your network. To everyone else they don’t exist.
How it works
Install Rabtly on the home server
Install the daemon on the machine running your services and bring it up. It joins your network and gets a private IP.
Install Rabtly on your phone/laptop
Add the device you’ll connect from. Now both devices are on the same private network.
Open the service by its Rabtly address
Browse to http://<server>:8096 (Jellyfin) or whatever port your service uses, via the server’s Rabtly IP or MagicDNS name — from anywhere, no public exposure.