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…

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    I am out of the loop, what’s going in with snooping?

    I use their cloudflared tunnel sometimes for accessing home hosted stuff.

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      Because Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy it can see everything that happens in a session.
      This is also known as a man in the middle attack. But Cloudflare meds to do this in order to do it’s checks for bad actors.

      Now, as Cloudflare has access to the unencrypted traffic and we know that NSA is all about data vacuuming due to the Snowdn leaks we can make a tin foil hat guess whaylt goes on.

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        Just note, OP, that the last part of his statement is pure speculation. The first part is technically true, which can lead to that inference, but no information has been released which corroborates it. However, that does not mean it’s not possible.

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        I don’t understand why Cloudflare gets bashed so much over this… EVERY CDN out there does exactly the same thing. It’s how CDN’s work. Whether it’s Akamai, AWS, Google Cloud CDN, Fastly, Microsoft Azure CDN, or some other provider, they all do the same thing. In order to operate properly they need access to unencrypted content so that they can determine how to cache it properly and serve it from those caches instead of always going back to your origin server.

        My employer uses both Akamai and AWS, and we’re well aware of this fact and what it means.

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    Their static website hosting is probably the best in the business. We seriously need some competition though.

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    I use cloud flare tunnel for my home server too. Are there any viable and somewhat easy alternatives?

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    Is there a way to do reverse tunnels, or something like it, so not opening any ports at all on the network, without cloudflare?

    Closest to that XP I got was generating VPN keys and distributing them to close friends, running DDNS (no-ip) on my Pi with a pivpn server and then accessing JellyFin that way.