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Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel (2022)


What if you could host a web service with no ports exposed? With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can!

There are lots of ways to host a web service.You might want to rent a VPS, Dedicated Server, or embrace full serverless and write your application for a service like Cloudflare WorkersYou might want to use Docker, k8s, LXD, or any other manner of deploying your services.You might have a complex setup to proxy and serve traffic through your IP. You might want to run your service in your home on that one old laptop you have lying around, or you might be worried about forwarding your IP and connections to the world without properly securing them. I also asssume a small level of technical and command-line ability, but it isn't anything overlay daunting so feel free to give it a go regardless!

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