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I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels

(david.coffee)
311 points eustoria | 4 comments | 16 Nov 25 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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plantinthebok ◴[16 Nov 25 19:52 UTC] No.45947870[source]▶
What's the actual win here? Avoiding relay latency in the rare cases Tailscale can't punch through NAT? If that's it, a $3 VPS running Headscale seems simpler. The complexity feels like you're optimizing for the 5% case while adding permanent vendor lock in. What am I missing?
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killingtime74 ◴[16 Nov 25 20:12 UTC] No.45948016[source]▶
For many homelabbers, just being cheap and avoiding the $3 VPS, that's it
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comrh ◴[16 Nov 25 20:20 UTC] No.45948073[source]▶
I dont even pay anything, my tiny homelab is completely covered by the free tier
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kohbo ◴[16 Nov 25 22:02 UTC] No.45948827[source]▶
What provider still has decent free tier?
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antonkochubey ◴[16 Nov 25 22:07 UTC] No.45948862[source]▶
Oracle. 4 vCPU, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD. It’s arm64 but nowadays that doesn’t really matter.
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Incipient ◴[16 Nov 25 23:29 UTC] No.45949432[source]▶
That can't possibly be free?
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jazzyjackson ◴[17 Nov 25 02:32 UTC] No.45950383{3}[source]▶
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

Only caveat I see is they reserve the right to delete underutilized/ idling instances

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siwatanejo ◴[17 Nov 25 07:23 UTC] No.45951516{4}[source]▶
I guess they require a credit card before accessing that free tier?
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1. ranguna ◴[17 Nov 25 20:54 UTC] No.45958161{5}[source]▶
If they do: create a virtual one, create an account with it and delete the card right after.
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3. ranguna ◴[19 Nov 25 08:53 UTC] No.45977273[source]▶
An honest advise being down-voted?

Thanks

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4. siwatanejo ◴[20 Nov 25 03:17 UTC] No.45988493[source]▶
I upvoted you.