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Benefits of Cloudflare Access (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by garibaldi3489@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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For a self-hosted application with a valid SSL certificate and support for OAuth, what are the benefits that Cloudflare Access provides? From what I can tell, it also filters traffic to possibly block attacks? Can it even be used with a self-hosted app if you aren't also running Cloudflare Tunnel? Is there a better alternative (that also integrates with major OAuth providers like Google, Github, etc) for self-hosters? Thanks for the help in understanding how this works.

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[–] Johannesboy1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Remember that cloudflare will see your traffic, Even with an ssl certificate.

[–] garibaldi3489@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right, so I'm trying to determine if that is worse or if exposing a service without Cloudflare (and being more at risk from someone trying to break into my service because of not having the monitoring/protection Cloudflare provides) is worse.

[–] ripe-lychee@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If you have an EC2 Amazon Compute Instance, you don’t hear people saying “Amazon can read your data”. Cloudflare is a major provider like Google or Amazon. Use Tailscale if your not convinced