Re:Cloudflare is down
by yoctosec on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:01AM
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I use Cloudflare because of their Tunnel to protect my Raspberry Pi, but I think I will just use it without the Tunnel now. My main concern is privacy, but I'm not ready to accept so frequent downtime and dependence on them. The whole reason to host self-host was to be independent anyway. Does anyone have a recommendation for that (that is free)? Should I worry about privacy? My name and my city are on the website anyway.
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Checkout tailscale
Tailscale's control plane uses Cloudflare.
Thanks, I did not know this. My Tailscale was unaffected by the outage.
And what about a website I want to make public? I'm just concerned about my IP being visible, like for my personal website or my searxng instance
Personally I'd just proxy it through a vm running on hertzer, linode, rackspace, etc
Tailscale Funnel, but might need a paid account
my tunnels are still working, oddly
Now mine works again too, I guess it was a short outage
Re:Cloudflare is down
by The_President on Friday December 05, 2025 @09:33AM
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You can basically do this yourself without punching holes out to the public. Create VPN for Pi and clients and access from the same private network.