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Cloudflare Developersโ€ข17mo agoโ€ข
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CDN vs Zerotrust tunnel hostname for website

Hi, I want to compare the 2 setup options for a website that is hosted at an VPS with a public ip with a domain name at Cloudflare:
1) turn on proxy at DNS settings, so the website is proxied by Cloudflare CDN
2) setup a tunnel at the VPS (install cloudflared), and create a public hostname for https://localhost:443 and allowing everyone to access it

Is there any functional/performance differece to the above 2 setups?
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