Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
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·November 3, 2025linsomniac
h33t-l4x0r
Works great for me, 5 subdomains coming to various ports on my dev pc for whatever project I'm testing (8000 for laravel, 3000 for nextjs). Way better than ngrok.
f311a
We spent 3 days trying to properly integrate their tunnels to our internal network. I took us 3 hours to integrate tailscale.
stingraycharles
We're using Cloudflare Zero Trust quite extensively, and I find them quite easy to use. Works perfectly from AWS as well, all their endpoints have both IPv4 and IPv6 IPs.
Jnr
It was a smooth experience for me. Just start the cloudflared container with the provided key in the environment and you are done. I also don't have ipv6 but it is not required and if I remember correctly I did not have to specify any endpoints, just the key.
watermelon0
Haven't used Cloudflare in a while, but in the past you needed $200/month Business plan to be able to use subdomains of an existing domain with DNS hosted elsewhere.
pyeri
localtunnel[1] is one good option, at least for now.
letmetweakit
I don't really get how the developer can run the project free of charge without monetization options. Does this solely rely on donors?
mrasong
Gotta say, this is amazing, exactly what I needed.
csomar
That really sums up the cloudflare experience and this is from someone heavily invested in their workers platform. They have lots of products and keep pumping more but except for DNS, most of them are half assed with weak maintenance/support.
pclmulqdq
Interesting. No mention of kernel bypass, which Cloudflare was also discussing in 2023-2024.
nwellinghoff
So why is this surfacing again now and why not a up to date article on Oxy? Which sounds very useful btw.
wmf
There are always people who haven't heard about stuff. https://xkcd.com/1053/
null
lionkor
Another un-google-able (OXY as in Occidental Petroleum Corp?) name for a Rust project. We just cannot help ourselves.
jnord
(2023)
koakuma-chan
How does it compare to Pangora?
thayne
Is it the same thing? Perhaps oxy was later renamed to pingora?
littlestymaar
The linked blog post has an entire section about that:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-oxy/#relation-to
> Although Pingora, another proxy server developed by us in Rust, shares some similarities with Oxy, it was intentionally designed as a separate proxy server with a different objective.
AbuAssar
clever name
leosanchez
What does it mean ?
drexlspivey
Oxy actually means sharp or acidic in greek. Oxygen was wrongly named like that (acid former) because it was thought to be the element to give acids their sourness but later many acids without oxygen were discovered. The key turned out to be hydrogen not oxygen
BoorishBears
An informal nickname for the opioid Oxycodone
theturtle32
Or a reference to oxidation, the process by which rust is formed…
mxxx
unfortunate name
isodev
Yup, here I am on the other side of the world and that was the first thing it reminds me of. The link to Rust is... remote, and I have to think a lot :D
BoorishBears
ah, the duality of man.
null
I spent some time on Friday trying out Cloudflare tunnel and boy was it a bad experience. The big killer was that the tunnel endpoint they gave me had an IPv6-only endpoint that I'm not sure was even valid. None of my devices could connect to it, including macbook, phone, linux, AWS instance...
On top of that I keep running into unexpected roadblocks with Cloudflare, like when I was trying to set up the tunnel they required me to set up a dedicated domain, you can't set up a subdomain of an existing domain. Probably fine if you are rolling it out as a production service, but for just testing it to make sure it even works (see IPv6 comments above), I just wanted to set it up as a subdomain.