Hosting Setup

Montana Meshtastic Community strives to be transparent and open source to the best of its ability. Here is what is used to run our backend to support all this.

  • Fedora 42 VPS at RackNerd
    • Tailscale - private mesh VPN used for secure remote administration and service access.
    • Podman
      • Portainer - GUI management interface for container operations.
      • ASP.Net - This Website
      • MQTT - Mosquitto
      • PotatoMesh Web
      • MeshMonitor
  • Wormhole ingress node - Arch Linux Dell OptiPlex
    • Tailscale - private link back to the MontanaMesh VPS for PotatoMesh ingestion.
    • Podman
      • PotatoMesh Ingress - reads the attached Meshtastic radio and forwards node, position, telemetry, and message data to PotatoMesh Web.