It's free and simple and handles HTTPS termination and can be set up easily using terraform/pulumi.

Interestingly, in the early hours of this morning I switched from Cloudflare Tunnels to a rathole/traefik based solution (well, currently it's port forwarding and a low grade home-baked dyndns solution until I get paid and can afford a cheap hetzner box because I spent all of my money again).

I switched back because I didn't like the added complexity of having to manage the routes, what I'm using it for is technically against ToS, and I like the self-contained nature of my microk8s cluster.

> handles HTTPS termination

I understand a lot of people run services locally for other reasons, but HTTPS termination defeats any privacy argument.

Cloudflare are essentially the largest MitM data collector in the world. A few people started moving their data out of the cloud and they saw the gap. Now they're plugging that gap "for free".