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I want to expose my services publicly on my own domain name, how would you guys do that?

I have seen people using Cloudflare, but I don't want to use Cloudflare out of principle. I have also seen stuff on caddy and frp that I've done some rough researching.

What do you guys do?

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
ISP Internet Service Provider
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx Popular HTTP server

10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 24 acronyms.

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