This was a really fun read as I was (am?) interested in creating a cloudflare tunnels alternative (you can say)

Lowendtalk is a great community to talk about in such things and buyvm (frantech) or francessco is quite active in the community too.

I have even talked to francesco in their discord themselves iirc. It was fun and I didn't understand the hype behind BuyVM but the community or the discord server, people love francesco a lot.

Great read. To be honest regarding my cf tunnel idea. I feel like its more of an economies at scale/loss making idea & only cf is able to profitably execute it but my intention was that cf runs ~12% of the data around the world and I just wished if a non profit could've been established regarding a cf tunnel idea and I even talked to providers about it.

But I felt like I needed funding and so I did drop the idea unfortunately. I wanted to fund the project myself but I felt like I was incredibly frugal and the idea of funding/sustaining it myself was quite infeasible.

just out of Curiousity, curious to hear what the hn communities think about an non profit cf tunnel.