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Centralization is bad for everyone everywhere.

That bring said... I just moved my homeserver to another city... and I plugged in the power, then I plugged in the ethernet, and that was the whole shebang.

Tunnels made it very easy. No port forwarding no dns configuration no firewall fiddling no nothing.

Why do they have to make it so so easy...

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago (24 children)

Unless you are behind CGNAT; you would have had the same plug+play experience by using your own router instead of the ISP supplied one, and using DDNS.

At least, I did.

[–] f2sfljLhdtTZ@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Not entirely. CF can protect you from DDOS of up to a few millions of calls per minute. Your home router would melt with that traffic. They also act as a firewall if you enable the proxy dns feature. They do a sanity check before forwarding the call. Also a home router cannot do this. And there's more.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Both your ISP and CF will drop you like a hot potato if you're ever under that kind of attack.

CF has other features that are nice like, like WAF, bot detection, geo blocking, caching etc. But it's only a taste.

All their real services are paid and the whole reason they offer a free tier is to upsell you to their paid services.

[–] Auli@twit.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

@lemmyvore @f2sfljLhdtTZ You can geoock without CloudFlare.

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