Selfhosted

I just started using them and I like it. It’s a good balance of easy and secure for me. I just added the container to my stack and then use their UI to point a subdomain at the internal port. Security can go pretty extreme if you set up their whole zero trust thing.

An alternative similar option is Pangolin. I’ve seen a lot of people like it to avoid Cloudflare, but I haven’t used it myself. There still has to be an endpoint running it, so you’ll need an external VPS, which then adds a cost to the equation but at least you control it.

It's easy to use and takes away some of the hassle.

If you don't like cloudflare you could find a VPS you do like and run Pangolin on it to get the same service but maybe not the same level of protection.

I use Oracle's free tier to host it. They're probably worse than cloudflare though as far as evil corporations go.

I only used their quick tunnels for some testing as it doesn't need a domain and natively runs under Termux. For that at least it worked fine.
But I probably wouldn't use them for anything serious. Typically you're doing everything to avoid MITM, and now this is just the opposite of that.

If you want to self host, rent some cheap server somewhere (I use Hetzner) the will act as a proxy and then configure frp.

It's basically what Cloudflare tunnel does, except you need to provide the public server instead of Cloudflare giving you one for "free."

I'm using Pangolin, which is the current hotness. It's somewhat like cloud flare tunnels, but you need a VPS (find a cheap one). That tunnels back to your house. I opted into using crowdsec as another later. It's a part of their setup process.