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by gonehome 1587 days ago
This is great, I've always found information about how to do this kind of thing to be pretty confusing and not well described. Thanks for adding some more helpful material to the web.

I wrote up a guide [0] for using Nginx on a standard digital ocean droplet, but had I known about cloudflared at the time I think I would have tried that (tailscale was also something I thought about).

There was another recent article about cloudflared I remember seeing (maybe not on HN?), there's not very much good stuff like this about self-hosting. A lot people online just say "use X" without explaining anything helpful.

[0]: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/06/urbit-on-the-cloud.ht...

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Hi, I'm the author of the blog post being promoted here.

Thank you for your kind words!

> I've always found information about how to do this kind of thing to be pretty confusing and not well described.

This is the main reason I made this post, there is a lot of documentation but most of it is quite dense and doesn't walk through a simple use-case. When I've recommended Tunnel to my friends I usually have to baby them through the process because of the lack of clear information. This post was made so I have something to point to when I recommend people to use Tunnel for their-usecase. I didn't expect it to blow up this much!

Thanks! Yeah it's great - this kind of thing is super helpful and will be helping random people searching the web for years to come :)