Published May 14, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Shekhar Vaidya is a veteran technology journalist and computer science engineer. He is the founder of TechLatest, where he has spent years providing technical analysis on hardware and Windows ecosystems. Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. Cloudflare was already handling my DNS, DoH , and tunnels . Tailscale handled the rest: CGNAT, remote homelab access, and phone-PC connectivity, and I had no major complaints. Then I asked myself, if Cloudflare was already handling most of the stack, did I still need another company handling remote connectivity? Tailscale was the only major networking layer that was sitting outside of the existing Cloudflare ecosystem. If I were to replace Tailscale with Cloudflare Mesh, there would be one less account, one less service dependency, and one less company handling my connectivity.…