Benefits of Cloudflare Access (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by garibaldi3489@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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For a self-hosted application with a valid SSL certificate and support for OAuth, what are the benefits that Cloudflare Access provides? From what I can tell, it also filters traffic to possibly block attacks? Can it even be used with a self-hosted app if you aren't also running Cloudflare Tunnel? Is there a better alternative (that also integrates with major OAuth providers like Google, Github, etc) for self-hosters? Thanks for the help in understanding how this works.

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[-] soapymoapysuds@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Benefits have been listed out here by others. The few restrictions I found on the free tier of Cloudflare is that they limit file size for uploads to 200MB. If you were exposing your NAS and want to upload a large file then you need to pay for Cloudflare or it will be restricted.

[-] GIRO17@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Didn’t they changed their TOS about streaming?

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Last I'd checked (a couple years ago), they don't permit media streaming via a free account, just serving static files. (I mean... Fair.)

I had several issues with emby/plex not loading streams through cloudflare connections, or really struggling to do so. Disabling cloudflare proxying for that subdomain solved that.

Now I just have cloudflare proxying my static file server and Ombi. Emby is a direct connection and everything else is behind OpenVPN.

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