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Serious limits on Cloudflare Tunnels:

Only works if you use Cloudflare as your domain registrar for that domain
You can’t use it for anything high bandwidth, specifically including streaming media (e.g. Plex/Jellyfin)
They reserve the right to her!image your service tunnel randomly at any time without warning for any/no reason unless you pay them for the service.

And that doesnt address the issue of getting in bed with Cloudflare (which has its own ethical ramifications).

I’d recommend one of the alternatives like localxpose.io that offer the same thing but without the limitations. Or you can slap together your own with a wireguard tunnel to a minuscule VPS with some routing rules on it. Both are about €5/month, which is cheaper (the same?) as paying for Cloudflare Tunnel to avoid the random termination and vendor lock in.

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billhead@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Regarding #1, you have to use Cloudflare for DNS but it doesn’t matter if they are your domain registrar or not.

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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
For #3 every service will say something like that, even with paid accounts.

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- aaravchen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  To some extent. Cloudflare is extremely explicit about it for their free service though, and they do actively exercise the option if they think you’re getting too much benefit from it.
  
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sirboozebum@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I heard you can use Pangolin and self host your own tunnel.

Haven’t looked into it.

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- aaravchen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hosting the tunnel is the only real value add from these services, which is why I’m confused by Pangolin’s business model.
  
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  - sirboozebum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It is strange.
    
    The only reason people who use Pangolin is to have control over the tunnel rather than rely on a company.
    
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