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Cloudflare Tunnel is what I (maintainer of OP list) currently recommend for most people. It's an excellent free service. Main downsides are:

* You can't do end-to-end encryption, ie Cloudflare terminates TLS for all requests and can see your data.

* Cloudflare's ToS specifically says you can only use the free tier for HTML websites. Anything else (ie video streaming, photo albums, etc) is technically grounds for suspension, although that seems to be rare in practice.

* Not open source. You can't self-host the server. (EDIT: Client is Apache licensed now) Client source code is available but not FOSS.



> Client source code is available but not FOSS.

They recently changed that, may be I am missing something?: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/blob/master/LICENS...


Ah you're right. I forget they said[0] a couple weeks ago that they would be changing that. Great news!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30285051




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