Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To
by forbiddenlake on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:59AM
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You have other options besides leaking your home IP. You could use a VPN like Wireguard or a WG product like Tailscale, which is what I do. My Tailnet IPs are in public DNS, too, because it doesn't matter, they're not routable publicly. You could also get a cheap VPS in The Cloud and proxy requests to your home.
Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To
by JodieBenitez on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:34AM
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> I'm running a Raspberry Pi 5 at home
Same here for years (Pi 4) but without the cloudflare part. It's been painless.
Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To
by Gracana on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:11AM
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You could set up your own proxy. It doesn't have to be anything complicated, just a VPS with nginx forwarding requests to your servers on a VPN.
Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To
by Fabricio20 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:01PM
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I would honestly not want to ever get targeted for a ddos attack on my home network ip. It's 5 bucks to buy a stresser online. Maybe you can even find one for free. People used to do that for fun when skype was around since you could resolve people's IP addresses due to a bug in skype. The worst possible outcome is they disconnect your network or block your port forwarding privileges outside of your own network being down for your family. I wouldn't wish ISP support on anyone, much less ISP support that would rather just terminate you than help you protect your homelab server.
Should I just stop being paranoid about "leaking my IP address" and self-host it 100%? All I fear is that my family will have to live with degraded internet experience because some script kiddie targeted me for fun.