Hello fellow hosters!
I have been self hosting for a while now, and as much as I love the security of just using my VPN to log into all my services, it is getting quite cumbersome to do so constantly.
I was doing some research into the Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels and have set one up to mess around with and it is great. I love the ease of access, I set up the OTP 2fa (tried to hook up authentik to it but ultimately failed and didnt want to spend to much time on it if it choose not to go with this)
What it your guys opinions on using this system to access services like owncloud? I love my owncloud server and have found myself using it more frequently, but Im not sure if its worth it to run it through CF?
I personally prefer that the private key for https remain local within my network. That ensures end-to-end privacy. That’s not an option when using Cloudflare.
I do use Cloudflare for public sites that don’t require a login. And I have the same zero trust services running locally for accessing non-public data. My reverse proxy authenticates/authorizes each request so that I don’t need to use a VPN.
Just remember not to run anything you want to remain private through it.
I started off using cloud flare tunnels. It seemed great at first until I started having problems with it. Now I just use nginx proxy manager and it works great.