I’ve migrated from cloudflare pages to cloudflare tunnels as I wanted to do a little bit more.

I can’t segregate my network as my ISPs router is rather limited, which means no vLANs. Connecting another router would introduce a double nat as they don’t allow bridging. So I’m running my website basically “raw” in a hyperV virtual machine. the website is semi-static and made out of flatfiles, therefore it’s is quite impossible to login into it. as stated before i’m using cloudflare tunnels to expose a nginx server to the interner. what are the chances someone or something (bot) inflataring my network? 100% safety is not possible but how safe am i?

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As far as i understood it a cloudflare tunneled service should not be visible when port scanning. Or am i completely wrong here? I started using tunnels just so i can avoid opening ports to the internet. I also restricted the access to my services to specific countries.

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The only thing a CF tunnel does is protect your home IP. Doesn’t protect the app or server you’re exposing.

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Well it does slightly more than just obfuscating your home IP, in that it will also do automatic bot, DDOS prevention, etc…

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Nothing will stop a general scan from happening. Especially if it’s a slow scan.

Scans won’t trigger dos/ddos alerts.

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