Can I ask, how much of a limit does the free tier have on bandwidth if you’re doing something like hosting Jellyfin?
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irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 month ago +1 for Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. The free tier is more than generous for a homelab
gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
My understanding is that there is no hard limit. At some point they will decide “this is business level traffic” at which point they will start harassing you to purchase a business plan.
That cutover point is unknown. I’ve never even seen an estimation of when it happens, so it could very well be the type of traffic instead of the amount.
They also only allow HTTP traffic for the free tier, which is another way they push you towards business tiers.
LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
They also only allow HTTP traffic for the free tier, which is another way they push you towards business tiers.
I don’t think that’s true. I’m pretty certain all of my domains are HTTPS only, but maybe that’s because I own the domain? Does cloudflare offer free domain names for tunneled traffic?
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
HTTPS traffic is still HTTP traffic. There’s just an encryption layer in there.
And yes cloudflare absolutely supports https.
- irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can I ask, how much of a limit does the free tier have on bandwidth if you’re doing something like hosting Jellyfin?
I honestly cannot find a hard bandwidth cap. Now, that is not to say that if you are sharing your JF with 20 other users, that they would not frown on that. However, from what I can tell, there is no real bandwidth cap.
- irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
On my mobile, but to give you an idea, I stream Navidrome probably 12-15 hours a day. I really don’t think they have a bandwidth limit per se, but when I get back to my desktop where I can actually see, lol, I can do some digging for you.
happydoors@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
While I have similar users here. I noticed that anything I watched on Jellyfin and was connected to cloudflare would give me recommended YouTube shorts on the movies/shows or similar ones I was watching. It is a great free service and I got my domain hooked up through them for $12/year but I feel like it is the leak for my data. I didn’t mind it for a long time because getting shorts served to me that were movie clips was fine with me.
Anyone notice similar behaviors? My paranoia has me wanting to go a different route or lock things down more.
- irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well, I don’t run the *arr stack or JF, so I cannot comment to your issue.
happydoors@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Notice custom ads based on the content you ARE piping through zero trust? Just curious. I realize many users here are probably very avoidant of ads or algorithmic shifts in the first place so it may be unnoticeable
- irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ll have to say it has been decades since I’ve seen an ad show up on my screen. However, as I said, I do not run the *arr stack or JF, so my experience might not be applicable to everyone.
So, you stream a video using JF or other and you are getting ads show up? Like pre-roll ads, or other? That just sounds weird to me. Could you provide a screen capture of said intrusions?
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Not to mention, the amount of data you can run through it is nuts. I’ve been running Stremio web through it for months without issue to watch content at work.
is that against ToS? i want to do it but dont want to get banned
What are your concerns about Cloudflare and getting ‘banned’? There used to be a clause in the TOS that prohibited streaming video. However, as one user here has pointed out, that has been since superseded. Now, I’m not going to tell you that you can share your JF with 20 other users and not raise an eyebrow with Cloudflare. I don’t have a clue what they would do in that case. As far as streaming, I run Navidrome around the house from the time I get up in the morning, until I go to bed at night, and have had no issues. There also isn’t a bandwidth cap that I can find anywhere in Cloudflare’s documentation.
CF ToS: cloudflare.com/…/service-specific-terms-applicati…
Not permitted but tolerated (until it isnt)
Good to know. I wasn’t aware of this.
Just looked it up and your right, they changed their ToS in 2023
Yup. OP was asking about bandwidth caps, I haven’t experienced any, nor can I find any documentation to support bandwidth caps. I stream Navidrome around the house from the time I get up to the time I go to bed and it has worked flawlessly.