Centralization is bad for everyone everywhere.

That bring said… I just moved my homeserver to another city… and I plugged in the power, then I plugged in the ethernet, and that was the whole shebang.

Tunnels made it very easy. No port forwarding no dns configuration no firewall fiddling no nothing.

Why do they have to make it so so easy…

  • Lem453@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    True, but the downside of cloudflare is that they are a reverse proxy and can see all your https traffic unencrypted.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yes, but if you host a public site it might be a better option, the content is public anyway, and you won’t get doxed if you publish something controversial. It’s a trade-off, between keeping traffic private or keeping your IP private.

      • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Wireguard works best for private traffic, but you can’t host a public site with that.

        Of course you can! Nginx and wireguard on a VPS and actual services wherever you want.

    • icydefiance@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      That’s only true if you set the encryption mode to “flexible”.

      If you have your own https cert then you can use the “strict” encryption mode, which doesn’t expose anything to cloudflare.