I’m finally moving my selfhosting experiments from a VPS to a physical machine in my house but, since I don’t have a static IP address, I opted to use the dynamic dns service offered by Cloudflare.
On their official website I’ve seen suggested ddclient but I haven’t find that much information on which labels should I add to set it up. Therefore, I’ve also found this docker image that seems pretty clean and easy to set up, but the video talking about it was of 3 years ago and I’ve seen that the github repository has been archived last year…
Which option (not necessarily among the two above) do you prefer to set up your Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare? (I don’t know if this can be an important information to add or not, but the Linux server I’m using is running NixOS)
I’ve been using this image with different providers for years. I would highly recommend it.
I wrote a bash script this that updates cloudflare using their API if the public has changed, and just have it running with crontab.
It’s been running for 6 years now without issue so I recommend this
I was using that same docker image for a while but somewhat recently migrated to this: https://github.com/favonia/cloudflare-ddns
It handles 5 of my domains all from the single container. Highly recommend it!
You might want to check out their Tunnels product. It might do what you want and is easy.
I’ve seen it mentioned in a bunch of videos and articles, but I didn’t like the idea of Cloudflare scanning all the stuff that is transferred from and to my server. If I opt just for their DNS service and update it through the API they can’t do that, right?
No, then they only handle your DNS setup, which is still okay in my eyes.
Its certainly far away from scanning all HTTP traffic. Not to forget the juicy metadata they get about the users across a big chunk of the internet, perfect tracking machine in a neat package with easy access by the government.
cloudflare is an intelligence company who’s flagship product involves them mitming your TLS.
why bother self-hosting, if you do it from behind cloudflare?
Because it provides an extra layer of protection at no cost and makes DNS management very convenient, as well as other free features.
That’s why I didn’t want to use Cloudflare Tunnels, but just Dynamic DNS. I though that they had access to the stuff you transfer only if you use their tunneling feature and for the reasons you said is something I would prefer to avoid.
The thing is that I bought my domain on Infomaniak and most of the self-hosting tutorials I’ve seen recommend Cloudflare. Would you suggest something different?
EDIT: I just realized that ddclient (that I was already considering to set up ddns with cloudflare) also supports Infomaniak directly! (I don’t know how before making this post I didn’t saw it 😅) So I’ll probably go for that way in order to cut out Cloudflare from the equation and rely on one external company less. Thank you :)
@cypherpunks
@cypherpunks @rhys mitming?
cloudflare’s service puts them in the middle - so, HTTPS doesn’t encrypt traffic between the browser and your server anymore, but instead between the browser and CF, and then (separately) between CF and your server. CF is an antidote to intelligence agencies’ problem of losing visibility when most of the web switched to HTTPS a decade ago.
