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Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company that provides services such as content delivery, DNS, and DDoS protection.
I chose Cloudflare not because I was careless. I chose it because it was the best option available. Most people choose it for the same reason. It is cheap (and mostly free), easy to set up, reliable, and most importantly, it usually works the way we want. When I wanted a reliable DNS solution without the unnecessary overhead, Cloudflare resolved it. When I was looking for a way around CGNAT, Cloudflare Tunnel solved it. Every new Cloudflare service solves another problem, and the more problems it solves, the more attractive it becomes. And with time, instead of being just another tool, it beca
Cloudflare is by far the best service for home labbers and the wider internet, and that should make you nervous… Before building my own home lab, I spent enough time around self-hosting communities that Cloudflare appeared in every other conversation. CGNAT workaround? Use Cloudflare Tunnel. Need DNS? Cloudflare has that too. SSL and DDoS protection? Enable with one click on Cloudflare. …
… Cloudflare is still here, just not in the way In my previous article, I argued that Cloudflare has become more than just a DNS provider in my setup. I said I’d try Pangolin as a Cloudflare Tunnel alternative, and I tried it. …
… And I intend to permanently drop Cloudflare Tunnel. Tunnel was the loudest Cloudflare dependency in my homelab. The next ones were much quieter, and I didn't even realize one of them had disappeared. Two more Cloudflare dependencies. Two very different outcomes. …
… I was never intended to compare any of that. The motive of this experiment was to reduce dependency on another company when I was already deep into the Cloudflare ecosystem. My network metadata wasn't being shared with another company anymore. …
… Compared to Cloudflare Workers, the biggest difference is everything around the runtime. With Cloudflare, you get global edge deployment, automatic scaling, built-in KV storage, and integrations like Durable Objects out of the box. …
… His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account Setting up Cloudflare Tunnels for the first time in my homelab felt like unlocking a kind of superpower. …
… For example, adding these non-standard modules by building a new Caddy image with xcaddy would look like: xcaddy build \ --with github.com/caddy-dns/cloudflare \ --with github.com/mholt/caddy-dynamicdns \ --with github.com/corazawaf/coraza-caddy/v2 \ --with github.com/caddyserver/cache-handler \ --… …
… When using Cloudflare, the company still sees my DNS queries in full, and while it claims to wipe logs in 24 hours, that's still long enough. …
… Once everything was in place, the process became completely transparent. Local traffic was landing on the local IP address, and outside traffic was using the Cloudflare IP addresses. …
… For web services, Cloudflare Tunnel sidesteps this beautifully. You run the cloudflared daemon on your server, it makes an outbound-only connection to Cloudflare's edge, and your low-bandwidth web-based services become reachable at a real hostname without ever opening a port or owning a public IP. …