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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!

EDIT: yall are great! Thank you so much for the replies. I'm going try my luck with pangolin but its good to know I have options.

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[–] aaravchen@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] aaravchen@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Racknerd $35/yr seems to be the 500MB RAM VPS with a 500GB/mo network data limit. That's probably sufficient power for a wireguard endpoint for ingress, but that's pretty low network data limit if you're putting a media server behind it (10GB/hr of video isn't unexpected, data is counted twice when having to ingress+egress thru the endpoint=25 hours of quality video per month)

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Use the their New Year deals and get 7000 gb monthly transfer with 3.5 GB RAM. Only $32.49/year

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 18 hours ago

Check out racknerdtracker.com to see all past deals that can still be used.

If you just go for bandwidth, I guess 4TB for $10.29/year sounds good: https://racknerdtracker.com/?product=810%2F1-gb-kvm-vps-a-must-grab-deal---leb-exclusive

[–] aaravchen@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Vs Cloudflare I agree. Giving up the MitM isn't an acceptable trade off in my opinion either.