Are any of you selfhosters using Cloudflare?

I want to make a server visible on port 80 and 443 from outside, however port 80 and 443 is currently used for another server.

I know we can reverse proxy but I have a reason why I am not using reverse proxy for this.

I have been told that I can connect to cloudflare like a VPN type of link. But going through their website I don’t find much useful information?

Is this possible or is it just rumors? If possible, what is the product offering to utilize?

  • phein4242@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Definetely! In your case I would get a vps from somewhere and host from there. Cloudflare is not going to work around your power issues. Some caching CDN might, but that would make the service read-only

    • thisiszeev@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      9 months ago

      VPS is not an option at the moment, as the amount of storage I need makes it prohibitively expensive. I have a 2TB WD Black drive with all the user files. My clients share very large files with me. Some of the art files alone can go into the 10s of GB for a set.

      My mate has 1000mbps business fibre to his house. He is happy to do a RP for me, as this is the only way I can make this work.

      We doing the server move this weekend. Holding thumbs it all goes well.

      • kon_dev@alien.topBEnglish
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        9 months ago

        What about VPN? If you don’t care if a third party is involved, as long as the traffic is encrypted, I can recommend using Tailscale. Install the client on the target and your system and just copy files as you would be in the same LAN by using their 100.x.x.x adresses. If you want to be totally independent of other vendors, you can setup wireguard (also used internally by tailscale) and connect your clients.

        If you can’t open ingress ports on any of your sides and you don’t want to use tailscale, you can still spun up a cheap VPS, install wireguard there and connect your clients system and your client both via VPN to this system. Afterwards, you can copy files via the internal wireguard IPs.

        But, if you look for a simple solution, tailscale is my preferred way. You could even use taildrop to transfer files https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop/