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You can even go completely free with Cloudflare tunnel with your own office/home hardware. I have a simple web running on my old Raspberry Pi 3 + nginx + golang web app. Also with ssh access to the Pi.

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Yes, the cloudflare SSH tunneling works well -- though I think the fact that SSL is provisioned means it'll show up in the cert transparency log, possibly attracting unwanted attention to probe my home systems.

I ended up turning that off and switching to Tailscale. Tailscale is set to advertise my home IP range (I chose one that's not 192.168 based which avoids problems with range conflicts). So I can just connect to Tailscale and connect to 10.X.Y.Z as though I'm home. If I want memorable hostnames I can point DNS records to those private IPs.

I've thought about this as well but I was not too comfortable with it.

As I understand it it is a reverse tunnel from your internal network to cloudflare? If your device is compromised it may lead to an attacker using that tunnel to access your internal network through the host device?

You don't even need your own hardware. You can serve your site using the free CF Workers plan. Of course, that's a different goal than running bsd in an aggressively tiny cloud instance.

You still have to pay for electricity. If you consider that "completely free" then paying $4 per month should also be considered "completely free".

True. It is about $0.55 per month on the FPL bill if my Raspberry Pi 3 runs 24/7.

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