<story><title>Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel</title><url>https://erisa.dev/exposing-a-web-service-with-cloudflare-tunnel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>napkin</author><text>If you have $3-5&amp;#x2F;month to spare on a VPS, a similar but self hosted solution can be achieved- Tunnel&amp;#x2F;VPN and reverse proxy- using Wireguard and Caddy.&lt;p&gt;Caddy in particular is extremely easy to configure, with the bonus that HTTPS&amp;#x2F;Lets Encrypt has never been free&amp;#x27;er. Wireguard configuration is also gloriously minimal but admittedly, potentially tricky to get right the first time.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just good to consider alternatives to Cloudfare&amp;#x27;s network dominance, if you can afford it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gtsteve</author><text>I recently used the same Cloudflare Tunnel project to put an internal hosted service behind Cloudflare access.&lt;p&gt;I chose this over Wireguard because it integrates with our SSO system and users don&amp;#x27;t have to configure a firewall client. In fact, most users don&amp;#x27;t know we even did anything special to secure the service.&lt;p&gt;Secondly, I can set up wireguard, but then I would be responsible for maintenance, keeping the instance up and patched etc. You may save money by using Wireguard, but you pay for it in time, which is the only thing you cannot buy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel</title><url>https://erisa.dev/exposing-a-web-service-with-cloudflare-tunnel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>napkin</author><text>If you have $3-5&amp;#x2F;month to spare on a VPS, a similar but self hosted solution can be achieved- Tunnel&amp;#x2F;VPN and reverse proxy- using Wireguard and Caddy.&lt;p&gt;Caddy in particular is extremely easy to configure, with the bonus that HTTPS&amp;#x2F;Lets Encrypt has never been free&amp;#x27;er. Wireguard configuration is also gloriously minimal but admittedly, potentially tricky to get right the first time.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just good to consider alternatives to Cloudfare&amp;#x27;s network dominance, if you can afford it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sascha_sl</author><text>The real beauty of cloudflared is that you can just throw it into a sidecar for your k8s pod &amp;#x2F; docker-compose container set and configure the entire thing in one place.</text></comment>