Alternatives to CloudFlare?

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Alternatives to CloudFlare? - Lemmy

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

What is your objective for ‘hide server IP’?

Privacy to disconnect your identity from the service? There is no solution to this. Full stop. Even with Tor, the state backed acronym entities will figure it out if you get on their radar.

If your objective is to keep your service online, you’re going to be hard pressed to find cost effective alternatives… Commercial solutions are expensive, like, “if you have to ask about the price, you can’t afford it” expensive.

Alternatively, you can try to roll your own by having many many proxy servers yourself… but if you’ve got a target on your back, you’ll never have enough instances; DDOS-as-a-Service is much cheaper than the amount of reverse proxies required to keep your service online.

There’s probably other use cases, but chances are, you’d still be hard pressed to find a solution that’s cost effective.

I would like to access to my server only trough the proxy, like if I put my real IP I end up with nothing, but if I put the proxy IP it show me my server

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.

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

Are you hosting a website, or something else?

Honestly, if it’s just a small, personal project, just use common sense and take some basic precautions (e.g. use a firewall, use NGINX instead of serving Wordpress directly, etc.).