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Securely Exposing Academic Servers with Cloudflare Tunnel

Securely Exposing Academic Servers with Cloudflare Tunnel Background When running Elasticsearch (full-text search) or Cantaloupe (IIIF image delivery) on an academic research server, you typically need to open ports to the outside world. However, opening ports introduces the risk of attacks exploiting vulnerabilities. With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can securely expose services to the public without opening any inbound ports on your server. What Is Cloudflare Tunnel? In a conventional server setup, the server opens ports and listens for incoming connections (inbound connections). Cloudflare Tunnel reverses this model. ...