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Using Cloudflare tunnels for exposing services (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by v3d@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Has anyone done it? Cloudflare says it's for "testing purposes" but I'm sure that self hosted services with a couple of users wouldn't raise any flags?

I've been running a HTTP server for a month with no problems.

DAE have any experience.

Practically it's like reverse proxying but without having to pay for a VPS - perfect for selfhosting.

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[–] Legitimate_Farm_3095@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Has anyone done it?

yes, many of us do

[–] limskey@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

All the time.

[–] certuna@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

You can use Cloudflare without the tunnel too, then it’s just a reverse proxy.

[–] YanvegHD@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes but WATCH OUT I did this to expose my Seafile server and if you use Cloudflare tunnel you won't be able to upload files >100mb with the free plan. First I thought it was a configuration issue on my side but after some research I just find out that there's a size limit for requests to Cloudflare.

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Source : https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/#request-limits

[–] v3d@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

good to know, thanks!

[–] sarkyscouser@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, I expose Home Assistant this way

[–] Wf1996@alien.top 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only thing about cloudflare tunnels that has led me away from it, is the unencrypted mitm part. I know they need to do it for their thread algorithms.

[–] v3d@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

could you elaborate a bit more, give a link?