Well erm yeah… seems to have gone quiet. Cloudflare is a weird beast at times… mind you I’m in the UK which is way weirder!

Everything I tried it on it didn’t work I had to add on the homepage, so for me, it isn’t as simple

Yeah and of course I’m not US based and not really after US content

Installed, works fine. Thanks!

yup - I understand that, not as simple though is it?

I asked for exactly this reason… 13ft was deffo not a whole foot better

first thing I tried it failed on, probably because it is a news site and recent… thanks for the suggestion though

I’ve seen that dude in a million and one hipster coffee shops…

at one time they did - but then paid search results came along…

I have asked - no suggestions as of yet…

Yup - some will…not many any more though!

I have to say that I might be the one here to say something different, but I still use Cloudflare tunnels because I have been with them for so long. I know lots of people hate them, for various reasons, but in this simple example, cloudflare will have many people who have used it, and it really just kinda works. So for getting started, it probably will be easier and quicker… A free account is good enough, will make the services available easily, and is secure enough for most people within reason. Once you are up and running you can change it moving forward.

Forgot to add - Cloudflare also acts as a CDN meaning a slow internet connection isn’t as bad as it could be. This is another reason I like it - it’s free and does help out if you have a slower connection. It isn’t a fix all solution, you still need to ensure that you are protected as well as you can be, have certs, use https, lock the server down as much as you can. Use fail2ban or something similar to stop brute force attacks… do as much as you can to help yourself. But it is easy to use to get you on your way to self hosting, which for me is a win.

Now this I like, just because I have plenty of people who really aren’t techy enough and dislike a lot about the fediverse… I know it’s not for everyone but having a simple front end works for loads! Good work here - I like it, I like it a lot

I run an SMTP relay… very few takers, most just pay for managed email hosting. I run an smtp relay so multiple wordpress sites and services I self host can send mail. My lemmy instance is one

I’d love to say I believe them in their backing down statement - but being cynical I really don’t

If you want the easy way consider Cloudflare and a tunnel. You can set it up in various ways but one way is to have a public hostname which can be a sub domain and then point it at your server. You’d have to have the DNS/domain at least use Cloudflare nameservers though for that. This is really easy to do - and you can move on to other ways later if you wish. Tailscale is another way, but Cloudflare will also act as a very good CDN/cache without much tweaking on your part. I have used Cloudflare for ever so I do still use tunnels - never seen the need to change yet. In fact my lemmy instance is cached/proxied through a cloudflare tunnel

https://lemmy.relayeasy.com/

FB t&c basically say that, yes… But saying another free service is stealing their data on facebook when meta has already done that is the irony

but it the most well known…

of course… but plenty are. When you see kids at school saying they want to be content creators as a job you know it is only going to get worse. I never said it was right or wrong but it is exactly what it is for a large percentage of people. Also can’t get past the fact that like googling something, watching a video on youtube is literally in peoples vocabulary

but after youtube has taken it’s cut and share of the creators there isn’t much left. This is the chicken and egg situation