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Plex behind cloudflare tunnel (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I currently have my Plex server open to the world. I realise that's probably not best practice, so I'm trying to find a solution that can work for me.

I've been looking at cloudflare tunnels and it seems like thats probably what I want. Giving me access to my home server from outside. And it's free, which is a nice perk

I've noticed however that the terms of service don't allow for video streaming, but is allowed in the paid tier. Before I commit to spending money, I'm curious if it's even technically possible. Plex tends to phone home to allow users to authenticate and locate their servers, so is that possible through tunnels?

Is this a waste of time? Is there a better solution? How are others dealing with this problem?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve noticed however that the terms of service don’t allow for video streaming

I may be wrong, but are you sure that's still the case?
There used to be clause 2.8

...Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service...

However this has been removed from the current version of ToS: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

Again, I may be wrong, I am often wrong, it's possible I missed something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I agree … it sure looks gone to me.

Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So far this is the only place I've seen mentioned regarding video streaming, that is still up anyway:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/more-dashboard-apps/cloudflare-stream/delivering-videos-with-cloudflare/

It's not entirely clear and I don't know if this is outdated or not.

I was using their proxy for video streaming for a while, but stopped cause I would rather not risk it. Maybe for personal use it could be ok