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.
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.
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.
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)
Use the their New Year deals and get 7000 gb monthly transfer with 3.5 GB RAM. Only $32.49/year
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
Vs Cloudflare I agree. Giving up the MitM isn’t an acceptable trade off in my opinion either.