towonel: A Self-Hosted Tunnel That Doesn't Read Your Traffic — Erwan Leboucher
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Cloudflare Tunnel decrypts everything. Towonel doesn't.

So you don’t want to port-forward on your home router or have Cloudflare decrypt all your traffic? Check out Towonel.

Most open source Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives involve setting up a VPS, terminating TLS there on a reverse proxy, then setting up a Wireguard tunnel to your server at home.

Towonel is different: it does not decrypt your traffic on the VPS and you can easily share one, so not every self-hoster has to buy and maintain a VPS.

Check it out!

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    36·
    8 hours ago

    Oh great. So now there’s a tuwunel and a towonel and they’re completely different things.

    (tuwunel is a fork of the matrix backend conduwuit. not to be confused with continuwuity, another conduwuit fork)

    • fhoekstra@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      27·
      7 hours ago

      I know, the naming isn’t ideal.

      On the bright side, you can now expose multiple tuwunel instances via a single towonel and federate with other tuwunels on other towonels for maximum uwu owo

      Which is almost what my friends and I are doing, except we’re running continuwuity instead of tuwunel.