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…

  • qazEnglish
    7•8 days ago

    Yes, but it does expose your own IP address and thus where you live. Tunnels don’t.

    • @Lem453@lemmy.caEnglish
      10•8 days ago

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

      • qazEnglish
        5•7 days 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. Wireguard works best for private traffic, but you can’t host a public site with that.

        • IllecorsEnglish
          3•7 days 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.

    • Auli
      2•7 days ago

      @qaz @Darkassassin07 what are you even saying? Ip address doesn’t expose where you live. And better get off the internet right now if your concern is exposing your ip cause it was never secret to begin with.
      Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet but it does not keep your ip private.

      • qazEnglish
        3•7 days ago

        Ip address doesn’t expose where you live.

        https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=geoip+lookup

        Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet1 but it does not keep your ip private2.

        This is also incorrect.

        1. The entire purpose of CF tunnels is to expose sites on the internet
        2. CF tunnels (and services like it e.g. ngrok) rely on shared proxy servers that forward traffic based on HTTP host headers (which is why you can’t forward arbitrary TCP traffic). The IP of the site will therefore have the shared IP of the company’s proxy server instead of your own.
      • Norah - She/TheyEnglish
        2•7 days ago

        How do you imagine that geoblocking content works if IP addresses don’t expose where you live?

        And better get off the internet right now if your concern is exposing your ip cause it was never secret to begin with.

        qaz could be using any of dozens of different methods to obfuscate their IP from the wider internet to write their comment, Tor or a VPN to name just a couple.