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How safe is self-hosting a public website behind Cloudflare? (feddit.uk)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I work in tech and am constantly finding solutions to problems, often on other people's tech blogs, that I think "I should write that down somewhere" and, well, I want to actually start doing that, but I don't want to pay someone else to host it.

I have a Synology NAS, a sweet domain name, and familiarity with both Docker and Cloudflare tunnels. Would I be opening myself up to a world of hurt if I hosted a publicly available website on my NAS using [insert simple blogging platform], in a Docker container and behind some sort of Cloudflare protection?

In theory that's enough levels of protection and isolation but I don't know enough about it to not be paranoid about everything getting popped and providing access to the wider NAS as a whole.

Update: Thanks for the replies, everyone, they've been really helpful and somewhat reassuring. I think I'm going to have a look at Github and Cloudflare's pages as my first port of call for my needs.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'll let folks with more security experience dive into your specific question, but another option is to host your website on something like Github pages (using a static website generator like Jekyll) and point Cloudflare at it. That way you don't need anything pointed at your local network, get the uptime of Github, and still benefit from your own domain name.

That's what I'm doing with my own blog and it's been great. Github provides the service for free but if they ever charge for it I'll just start hosting it locally.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

OK that's genius, I will definitely look into that!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or take github out of the equation and directly use cloudflare pages. It has its own pros and cons, but for a simple static blog it'll be more than enough, and takes out the CNAME hassle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Came here to say this^

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

If you have any issues or questions feel free to DM me here. I'd be happy to help out :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Speaking of Cloudflare, if you’re okay with not self hosting, then there’s Cloudflare Pages which is good for hosting static websites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's what I'm doing! I used it to make a "blog" of all the things I had to learn to switch to Linux for my home drives and daily gaming rig. Complete with copy buttons on the code blocks so I can do a complete reformat in minutes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I do this via AWS amplify and it costs me a few cents a month as another option.