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I thought that the Cloudflare tunnel was the very expensive pay-per-gb "argo route". Really nice to know that they offer a simple and free reverse proxy, thanks!

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They made it free a couple years ago and rebranded as Cloudflare Tunnel. Currently an excellent free option though technically you're not supposed to use it for anything other than basic HTML sites.

I recently set it up with a variety of apps (frontend/backend) behind it. Where did you see it should only be a basic html app? Don't recall reading that in their documentation.

I just did a bit of research. They updated[0] their ToS a while back. At the time I asked[1] if people thought this change would apply to tunnels. Based on the answer to that I would say it's no longer prohibited, which is great.

See also this interaction I had with Cloudlfare's CEO a couple years ago on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30285554

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963143

Just looked up and the Argo thing still exists and the pricing looks the same, couldn't find anything related to basic HTML sites on tunnel, though.

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