Just getting started with self hosting. I was wondering if anyone had experience with Cloudflare Tunnels for exposing their services to the internet. I like the simplicity and security it offers but don’t love the idea of using Cloudflare. Like, I’m self hosting for a reason lol. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

For context, I’m running all of my services in a very small k8s cluster and my priorities are mostly security then maintainability. Thanks yall!

  • aaravchen@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    So what benefit does Pangolin actually provide then if you already have to provide the VPS? Routing back to your network from a VPS is trivially easy, it’s getting the affordable VPS (given bandwidth prices) that’s actually the sticking point of any solution.

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      4 hours ago

      Over cloudflare, it’s knowing you’re the man in the middle and not some company. It has a few other things like zero trust, and an authentication layer.

      I use racknerd for VPS and it’s about $35/year. So definitely one of the cheapest part of my home lab.