Comment by jchw

I was briefly messing around with Pangolin, which is supposed to be a self-hosted Cloudflare Tunnels sort of thing. Pretty cool.

One thing I noticed though was that the Digital Ocean Marketplace image asks you if you want to install something called Crowdsec, which is described as a "multiplayer firewall", and while it is a paid service, it appears there is a community offering that is well-liked enough. I actually was really wondering what downsides it has (except for the obvious, which is that you are definitely trading some user privacy in service of security) but at least in principle the idea seems kind of a nice middleground between Cloudflare and nothing if it works and the business model holds up.