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I want to expose my services publicly on my own domain name, how would you guys do that?

I have seen people using Cloudflare, but I don't want to use Cloudflare out of principle. I have also seen stuff on caddy and frp that I've done some rough researching.

What do you guys do?

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Their admin interface is slow and awkward, but otherwise happy. Their deals are always changing and I currently have good specs for the money. EU company and my machine is in Montreal, so I was happy with non-American hosting and green electricity.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Epic. You probably don't use the admin interface too much right? Probably just configure your reverse proxy a leave it. Gonna rent a vps here in the states.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Indeed, I log in pretty rarely.

I keep thinking to myself whether $5/mo or buying a firewall and attempting to achieve the same thing is a better idea