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by archerx 615 days ago
You could also use openVPN or wireguard and not have a man in the middle for no reason.

I have a VPN on a raspberry pi and with that I can connect to my self hosted cloud, dev/staging servers for projects, gitlab and etc when I’m not on my home network.

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I believe the suggested setup was for making a site and images available to the public, for which hiding the origin behind Cloudflare seems a very good reason. Some public IP will need to have ports 443/80 open.
That requires opening a firewall port on router. For some people, that might not be possible. Either due to ISP restrictions such as CGNAT. In those cases, they're better off using something like Tailscale.