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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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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 months ago (24 children)

Unless you are behind CGNAT; you would have had the same plug+play experience by using your own router instead of the ISP supplied one, and using DDNS.

At least, I did.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (13 children)

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

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 months 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.

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