Cloudflare tunnels have been a blessing for me, as someone locked behind an apartments router trying to host services without the ability to forward ports. The fact that it's free, is the cherry on top.
Yes, yes...I know..."ORACLE"!? choking sounds But at this point, they're no worse a company than Amazon. I've been very happy with their free tier for my home use. There's a bit of learning curve...just like AWS, but they give you a ton of free stuff, including training.
Used to be a huge proponent, it was a good 4 years of freebies. But this too shall pass.
05:20:09 up 631 days, 23:10, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
Here's the link to their documentation on reclamation of idle resources: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
> Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true:
> * CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 15%
> * Network utilization is less than 15%
> * Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only)
And here's the email that I get whenever they reclaim an instance:
> Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has reclaimed idle Always Free compute resources from Always Free customers by stopping the compute instance(s). Reclaiming idle resources allows OCI to efficiently provide services to Always Free customers. Your account had one or more idle compute instances that have been stopped. You can restart your compute instance as long as the associated compute shape is available in your region. Your Boot and Block Volumes remain unchanged and available to you. In the future, you can keep idle compute instances from being stopped by converting your account to Pay As You Go (PAYG). With PAYG, you will not be charged as long as your usage for all OCI resources remains within the Always Free limits.
Screenshot of my "Always Free" banner in the Oracle web interface: https://imgur.com/a/hTZfkek
In the 3+ years of running 2 instances on OCI, I'm yet to see this.
ssh -R \*:8080:localhost:80 -N root@example.comI've seen too many cloud provider horror stories.
Until you get hacked or attacked and the bandwidth bill skyrockets. I wouldn't risk it.
Cloudflare is bandwidth "included".
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.
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?
What's the limit?
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.
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