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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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I use a VPS, not Cloudflair, but it's the exact same concept.
CF will have an exposed IP that you point your domains A record to. On your CF instance, you would then tunnel (I'm guessing they offer wireguard) into your home network, just like you are currently doing from your personal device.
A big difference here is you will put a reverse proxy on CF that will authenticate SSL with users. The proxy then will pass unencrypted http down the tunnel for your web services to respond to.
A couple days ago, someone asked (I think on this instance), "can you protect yourself from your VPS?", which I think would be your next question.
I pay for a VPS, because if it's free, you or your data is some how the product.
where can you get free VPS at? Amazon has a "free tier" but I think it eventually runs out.
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I believe Cloudflair tunnels is free. That's where my comment was rooted.