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How have you found it for hosting services? I found it struggled with something as simple as an Apache webserver, though perhaps that's just something to do wit

How have you found it for hosting services? I found it struggled with something as simple as an Apache webserver, though perhaps that's just something to do with my internet itself.

justsomehnguy 3y ago
My $5 is on the MTU mismatch.
- geraldhh 3y ago
  the internet is not going to accept bigger packets just because someone wants to add vpn-encapsulation (additional data). you either account for the overhead (mssfix) or your payload gets fragmented and performance goes to shit, deal with it 8)
InvaderFizz 3y ago
I've had my Plex server behind Cloudflare Tunnels for years, never had any performance or reliability issues. Another great use case is for SSH to a server quite some distance away. I find that the latency when using a cloudflare tunnel to SSH on average better than whatever route my ISP would normally take.
- Grimburger 3y ago
  > Plex server behind Cloudflare Tunnels for years Unless I'm missing something here, there's no way Cloudflare is allowing that much traffic through tunnels for free. Is this just setting up the initial plex connection through the tunnel and then going p2p?
  - detaro 3y ago
    > there's no way Cloudflare is allowing that much traffic through tunnels for free What's the limit?
  - InvaderFizz 3y ago
    Nope, 100% of my external users go through CF tunnels. The downside is that the caching results in the entire file being cached immediately if the user is not using transcoding, but most of my users are utilizing transcoding. I put a bandwidth limiter on my Cloudflare tunnel to limit it to 100Mbps I don't have any actual stats, but there appear to be about 10-20 hours a day of remote streaming, mostly at 3Mbps. So we're only looking at 400-800GB on average per month. Also, you can use Cloudflare unregistered free tunnels just like the article, but using registered tunnels makes it so you don't have to update the Plex url every time you reconnect. I used unregistered tunnels until Cloudflare made tunnels available on free tier accounts with no bandwidth charges.
  - _a9 3y ago
    Ive been using a tunnel to share my jellyfin server to friends for about a year. Its pretty much a proxy for it (add jellyfin:port to the config, start cloudflared, access on jellyfin.my.domain on cloudflare). I havent had any issues with bandwidth but it depends on how much you push through it. Ive seen stories throughout the years of people pushing 30-50TB before getting a temp ban from using cloudflare services. Of course DNS still works but you just cant use their proxy/cdn/tunnels/etc
piperswe 3y ago
I've pushed quite a lot of traffic over Tunnels with no issues - IME it performs just as well as sending the traffic over Cloudflare without the Tunnel.

How have you found it for hosting services? I found it struggled with something as simple as an Apache webserver, though perhaps that's just something to do with my internet itself.

justsomehnguy 3y ago

My $5 is on the MTU mismatch.

geraldhh 3y ago
the internet is not going to accept bigger packets just because someone wants to add vpn-encapsulation (additional data). you either account for the overhead (mssfix) or your payload gets fragmented and performance goes to shit, deal with it 8)

InvaderFizz 3y ago

I've had my Plex server behind Cloudflare Tunnels for years, never had any performance or reliability issues. Another great use case is for SSH to a server quite some distance away. I find that the latency when using a cloudflare tunnel to SSH on average better than whatever route my ISP would normally take.

Grimburger 3y ago
> Plex server behind Cloudflare Tunnels for years Unless I'm missing something here, there's no way Cloudflare is allowing that much traffic through tunnels for free. Is this just setting up the initial plex connection through the tunnel and then going p2p?
- detaro 3y ago
  > there's no way Cloudflare is allowing that much traffic through tunnels for free What's the limit?
- InvaderFizz 3y ago
  Nope, 100% of my external users go through CF tunnels. The downside is that the caching results in the entire file being cached immediately if the user is not using transcoding, but most of my users are utilizing transcoding. I put a bandwidth limiter on my Cloudflare tunnel to limit it to 100Mbps I don't have any actual stats, but there appear to be about 10-20 hours a day of remote streaming, mostly at 3Mbps. So we're only looking at 400-800GB on average per month. Also, you can use Cloudflare unregistered free tunnels just like the article, but using registered tunnels makes it so you don't have to update the Plex url every time you reconnect. I used unregistered tunnels until Cloudflare made tunnels available on free tier accounts with no bandwidth charges.
- _a9 3y ago
  Ive been using a tunnel to share my jellyfin server to friends for about a year. Its pretty much a proxy for it (add jellyfin:port to the config, start cloudflared, access on jellyfin.my.domain on cloudflare). I havent had any issues with bandwidth but it depends on how much you push through it. Ive seen stories throughout the years of people pushing 30-50TB before getting a temp ban from using cloudflare services. Of course DNS still works but you just cant use their proxy/cdn/tunnels/etc

piperswe 3y ago

I've pushed quite a lot of traffic over Tunnels with no issues - IME it performs just as well as sending the traffic over Cloudflare without the Tunnel.