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Isn't cloudflare a pretty common part of remotely accessing your server? I don't use it but I've seen lots of people talk about it and recommend using them.
yes. it also prevents attacks. it's basically a necessity these days.
if you host your own stuff and get any traffic you'll get DDoSed by bots. cloudflare prevents this by detaching your DNS from your IP and distributing requests.
just port forwarding on your home network these days... and you'll get dozens of attacks per hour.
Maybe you guys are hosting more than me but I've got a few ports forwarded and don't see any unusual activity. I guess I'm just lucky.
For me what triggered getting a lot of malicious login attempts in the logs was pointing a dns record directly at my ip
Ah, yeah I don't do that. Haven't had much of a reason to so far. Only have a few minor convenience type services opened up
I do use it myself (free tier only) but it’s out of ease and convenience. I’m ready to abandon it but I like the security it brings. My stuff is just personal garbage with no strict uptime requirement - if I lose public access I still have Tailscale and a VPN to my router as backup.
So, it’s a deal with the devil for sure, but it’s one I wore protection for when signing.
I haven't exposed anything to internet and self hosted headscale instance. I'm not behind CGNAT so it was quite easy.