# cloudflared

10 Hacker News commenters recommended cloudflared and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Easy way to expose self-hosted services from home through a Cloudflare tunnel. Caveat: free tunnels sometimes flake.

## Why people recommend it

- Quick, easy setup (2 comments): "I got the cloudflared running fairly easily (though their Debian package repo seemed broken" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799293)) "got a working tunnel in like 15 seconds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758702))
- Exposes home-hosted services (3 comments): "use cloudflared and a cheap Lenovo Tiny box to host from my house" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442926)) "It's what cloudflared and services like it are designed for." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582914)) "expose it via cloudflared so you can use it on the go" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324289))

## What people warn about

- Free tunnels sometimes flake (1 comments): "CF free tunnels sometimes flake" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976349))
- Debian package repo seemed broken (1 comments): "I got the cloudflared running fairly easily (though their Debian package repo seemed broken" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799293))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "cloudflared", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflared/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).