I use cloud flare tunnel for my home server too. Are there any viable and somewhat easy alternatives?
DynDNS? I'm not 100% sure what CF Tunnel does, but from my 2 min reading it seems that DynDNS would accomplish what OP described just as well.
Once configured, Tor Hidden Services also just work (you may need to use some fresh bridges in certain countries if ISPs block Tor there though). You don't have to trust any specific third party in this case.
Port forwards in the router + DynDns.
I have written a small blog post about how to Bypass CGNAT, and have also mentioned why you should not use Cloudflare if you are hosting for privacy.
Are there browser plugins (or other solutions) to see if an site uses cloudflare before visting?
Is there a way to do reverse tunnels, or something like it, so not opening any ports at all on the network, without cloudflare?
Closest to that XP I got was generating VPN keys and distributing them to close friends, running DDNS (no-ip) on my Pi with a pivpn server and then accessing JellyFin that way.
Rent a VPS, point DNS to it, have it act as central wireguard peer and connect your server(s). Then bridge incoming traffic to server via socat or firewall rules. Done
That's a lot of work. Thanks though.
also, when you have 5g failover on the router and the fiber it's down, it automagically continues to work without admin intervention
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