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Afaik, Cloudflare is mostly used for anonymity and privacy, not for scale. DDoS protection is one nice side effect of privacy, but I'd imagine there are others
by otabdeveloper4 11mo ago
Afaik, Cloudflare is mostly used for anonymity and privacy, not for scale.
DDoS protection is one nice side effect of privacy, but I'd imagine there are others too.
- bastawhiz 11mo ago> Cloudflare is mostly used for anonymity and privacy, not for scale I have never heard this before. Anonymity from what? From people knowing your Hetzner ip? I don't know what you're keeping private.
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- DanOpcode 11mo agoI self-host my blog on a server in my home. Instead of opening a port to my home network, I'm using Cloudflare Tunnel to expose the blog to the internet.
- bastawhiz 11mo agoThat's not really anonymity or privacy in all likelihood, though. Your residential IP is already anonymous. Knowing it tells me nothing other than your general region. The benefit there is that you don't need to have a static IP. And besides, Cloudflare Tunnel is distinct from (though it integrates with) the cdn product.
- ack_inc 11mo agoI would like to know why this comment seems to have been down voted. It's true AFAIK.
- otabdeveloper4 11mo ago> Your residential IP is already anonymous It certainly isn't. In fact, IPv4 is the de-facto authorization and authentication system of the Internet. It's stupid but it is what it is. Cloudflare is the "bitcoin mixer" for laundering IPv4's.
- otabdeveloper4 11mo ago> From people knowing your Hetzner ip? Yes. You don't really want people to know your IP address. It's like giving your phone number to spammers.