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Derek Ross | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Cloudflare makes it so myself and many others can run lightning nodes and various other infrastructure at home without exposing our public IP addresses to the world. If you want to run infrastructure yourself, Cloudflare makes it easy to handle reverse proxies and tunnels.
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Low Information Voter | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 True enough. Dynamic DNS does this too. Tor does this even better, but needs more adoption.
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Derek Ross | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Dynamic DNS doesn't hide your IP though. It just gives you a hostname where the underlying IP changes but the DNS hostname stays the same. We're essentially using Cloudflare for privacy, but also allowing Cloudflare to see everything 😂 so it's private to the world, but not to Cloudflare are their partners.
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 explain this then:

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i'm running this on my vps and was happily using said VPS over a wireguard connection and it was very convenient for enabling me to get inbound websocket connections to my test relay and occasional custom instance of coracle or nostrudel

you don't need cloudflare to have a fucking wireguard tunnel to a VPS

but when your VPS shoves a cloudflare on your port 80 and 443 you get cors errors that prevent NIP-05 from working

so, yeah, nah, fuck cloudflare, fuck them right in the ass
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Derek Ross | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 CORS is always a pain in the ass.
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 first time i've encountered this problem, and it's because cloudflare is fucking with my http headers
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Derek Ross | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Absolutely. They do this with mine too and it makes things a pain in the ass.
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 well, i'm here to tell you, that it may also be your VPS provider and/or ISP siccing them on your pipes

i felt raped when i figured out what was going on... this is insidious
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Derek Ross | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 If we had a similar and cost effective solution, I'd move to it in a heartbeat to help decentralization self hosting a bit.