From: user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   MrSnorkly  posted:   
      
   > I am so tired of being unable to visit simple websites because they rely   
   > on Cloudflare. Do they have such an advanced service that everyone wants   
   > to use it? Can some tech anon explain whats so special about them?   
      
   My newsgrouper.org site runs on a server in my home, proxied through   
   Cloudflare on their free tier (I only had to pay for the domain   
   registration). I run their tunnel daemon process on my server which   
   connects out to their servers and then relays my website traffic. This   
   means I don't need to open *any* incoming ports on my router. So this   
   adds a layer of protection from some of the nasties on the net.   
      
   They also do caching of web pages, but that's less relevant to me since   
   most of my content is dynamically generated and so not cacheable.   
      
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