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Comment by rr888 | Hacker News Reader

As the website says, Cloudflare Tunnel is a great solution, both for this reason and also to throttle if you have to.

Do you not see the complete farce of pretending to host something "at home" while being reliant on CloudFlare?

Not really, if I have a "source of truth" in my house, it's very easy to change my distribution partner on a whim. I host predominantly static websites, so using Cloudflare means I take nearly all the load off my own internet connection, let Cloudflare bear the (trivial) cost of distributing my content, and if I need to switch to another CDN down the road, I can with ease.

Well, TFA says:

> Ghost is hot shit, but Wordpress is also available. Ghost is brilliant for home hosting - many of its assets are hosted from free CDNs, leaving your home-server free to simply deliver text to the user

Which I find to be an entirely different kind of "farce" because it's then 100% dependent on a CDN / third party hosting. I very much prefer to have 100% self-contained self-hosting and put a front rev proxy / LB / mirroring CDN that can be switched from or entirely dropped by updating a DNS record.

What’s great is that it’s not dependent. If the CDN is down - ghost degrades extremely well. It’s not pretty but it’s still readable. Excellent compromise for folks with weak internet connections.

We’re pragmatic and not idealistic - otherwise none of this would exist

As long as the apps you expose publicly have perfect security.

Remember heartbleed?

What do you want to say? Software is not perfect, not even at home?

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