Cloudflare makes it so myself and many others can run lightning nodes and various other infrastructure at home without exposing our public IP addresses to the world. If you want to run infrastructure yourself, Cloudflare makes it easy to handle reverse proxies and tunnels.
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True enough. Dynamic DNS does this too. Tor does this even better, but needs more adoption.
If we had a similar and cost effective solution, I'd move to it in a heartbeat to help decentralization self hosting a bit.
Dynamic DNS doesn't hide your IP though. It just gives you a hostname where the underlying IP changes but the DNS hostname stays the same. We're essentially using Cloudflare for privacy, but also allowing Cloudflare to see everything ๐ so it's private to the world, but not to Cloudflare are their partners.