Basic considerations for new users i don't clearly understand

Support / Troubleshooting
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hi everyone
i am just discovering twingate for my homelab and a bunch of servers i have and i am really exited about this new app

however, i have had many questions regarding the functionality to completely understand how it works, most of which i have already found the answer, however, i’m here to ask the last two i still dont get to understand

  1. starter plan: when i go to my network → policies, the Minimum Authentication Requirements forces me to re-authenticate every device every 31 days (cant be more), it is kind of annoying since i have some VMs from one server that connects to other servers located in other places and i dont want to “re-authenticate” every 31 days, this should be ment to work without touching anything. is there any way to get rid of this? i may not be available when the 31th day ticks to “re-authenticate” and i dont want to get services go down just because of this
  2. again starter plan: under network->settings my account says
    “Device Limits
    2 devices per user
    Upgrade to Teams for 5 devices per user”
    however when i go to “devices” i see that i already managed to connect 4 devices using my same google account. is there something i am missunderstanding?

apoligize for my caveman english

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#2 I believe you start with business trial account (look on the bottom of any Twingate account web page, I believe you’ll see the plan and time remaining)

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i disabled it because i am testing the service and i want to know if it will work after 15 days… i am using the starter plan

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  1. You can use a service key combined with a headless client for services that need to connect programmatically.
  2. You won’t lose access to any devices that have already connected.
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thank you for your response!

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Hi everyone!

btw, for those interested in a bit of a shortcut / succinct guide for setting up Twingate in a homelab, this guide might be useful: How to protect your home lab | Docs

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