only i can post but thats not important
You may be wondering how i got here. Well, it all started in christmas, when I got a Raspberry Pi 5 (smol computer) that i decided i would use as a server. You may be asking why, and to that I answer, why not? I mean what's the worst that could happen? Don't answer that actually.
Anyways, after i got the rpi i decided i would host a website on it. First, I bought the domain name from Namecheap (8€ for 2 years ain't bad), and then i started looking at proxy solutions because, while I am dumb, I'm not dumb enough to expose my home's IP (even though I probably did, somehow). But my dumbass thought that just going in without any research was a good idea, so what i did is I tried to get Oracle's free VPS to setup a VPN there. Luckily though, they straight up told me "nah you can't make an account and we cannot give out more information, go fuck yourself" (after I opened a ticket for not being able to make an account btw). While I was waiting for that very helpful response, I started looking at VPNs instead. After all, VPNs are just proxies with extra security right? Well Wireguard just refused to work. I could get it working, but when it was connected to the VPN, domain name resolution just wouldn't work. Like I could ping google's ip (142.250.179.78) just fine, but couldn't ping google.com itself. And while I was tinkering with that, Oracle responded (4 days just to tell me to go fuck myself), so for some reason I decided to abandon all of that VPN shit and started looking at other proxy solutions. And I'm glad I did, since I found Cloudflare's free tier. Apparently they just have a free tier that you can sign up with just your email, no major data required, and that offers a fuck ton of features. For some reason I didn't think about Cloudflare, but then again, that's why you do research before doing shit like this. Anyways, I signed up, and it was all pretty straightforward. I got the proxy setup, and even gave Cloudflare control over the DNS settings so I could have everything in one place, instead of switching between Cloudflare's and Namecheap's dashboards. And it also came with a free SSL certificate so that's cool. And if you're seeing this, then this website is succesfully being run inside a WSGI server with Flask, inside a tmux session, inside a Raspberry Pi 5, and routed through Cloudflare. Pretty neat right?