Because changing your nameservers to cloudflare's allows you to use their DNS service, which comes with the CDN infrastructure.
Here is the cloudflare dns for my lemmy server's domain:
The switch where it says proxied means that I am using the CDN to obfuscate the real IP of the server.
When you make a dns request, it goes to the nameservers first to see which server is has the dns config. A CNAME record is in the dns config
No problem! You change the name servers on your registrar to cloudflare's so that when traffic goes to your.domain, cloudflare is the one that processes the dns request.
If you kept the name servers of your registrar then the traffic would just be processed by the registrar, cloudflare wouldn't even see the traffic.
Basically the name server defines your domain's current dns provider.
Hope that makes sense
It's basically the same. Like they said, you just follow the intructions on cloudflare to change the name servers on your registrar and then you're good
Sorry I meant in your browser. Yes dns does not point to ports.
You would have to use some sort of reverse proxy that is only accessible from internal networks
Buy your domain with cloudflare, or transfer it over to them. Then just set up dns to point to you server and make sure the proxy switch is on. Pretty sure that's all you need to do at the free tier
Not sure how ansible works on Windows but you could use Windows Subsystem for Linux, install ansible on that and then off you go.
Keep in mind you still need to specify the port with this method.
You can set it up in the command line as with a normal rclone install. Then use the user scripts addon from community applications to set it up running automatically.
Not even ha, just tried to install on Debian 12
oh no, that'll teach me for using LanguageTool!
Pretty much yes.
If you want a more in-depth explanation of DNS and how nameservers work etc check out this article from cloudflare.
Specifically the part; "There are 4 DNS servers involved in loading a webpage:" It explains it much better than me.