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Hey is there any alternatives to CloudFlare reverse proxies? I want to hide my server IP but not share everything with CF...

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[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 19 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Again, that’s what you’d like to achieve, but why?

Without the reason, there is no way to provide a useful answer that would adequately address the underlying reason.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Simply to protect my home server from attacks, and serve the content only with the remote server in a datacenter

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 25 points 5 months ago (6 children)

What kind of attacks, against what service?

DDoS? It’s cheaper to hire botnets to attack than to defend. You’d most likely still be knocked off even just by the amount of traffic that leaks through your proxy before the VM gets cut off at the data centre. Specifically: it is much more likely that data centres will give higher thresholds before null routing your VM than your residential ISP would be wiling to tolerate.

Brute force on shell? SQL injection? Remote shell execution? Deploying the extra layer will not protect you from these as your own proxy will not give you WAF.

It is always important to know why you’re doing something, before anyone can prescribe a solution.

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

You're asking excellent and very relevant questions.

OP, take heed.

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