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Should i use Cloudflare? (lemmy.moe)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I recently got a Synology NAS and I am trying to setup Emby. I wanna host a media server however, I wanna be able to access the emby location from anywhere and let say my mom access it. Just I wanna keep it secure. Should I use cloudflare?

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's been a while since I've heard anything about this but didn't they change their ToS in regards to media on their network? I thought I read something about that clause getting removed at some point a few months back.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe. Personally it's just another huge corpo that's reading my traffic. There's a dozen other middle men, but no doubt cloudflare wouldn't hesitate to release all of my traffic at a moment's notice.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That's a fair point, I self host stuff more out of convenience over privacy (although that's still a factor) so I guess I just care less about them watching my traffic I suppose. CF is just so easy with their Argo Tunnels and domain registrar service.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I believe media hosting is only against their ToS if you try and use the proxy service. In the DNS page you would want to make sure the clouds are not orange. Fair warning though now your IP is exposed to the public.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I use their tunnels in conjunction with internal split horizon DNS so I don't have to forward any ports and can access things locally faster so I'm probably breaking this rule but I haven't gotten any emails or letters about it yet. Crossing my fingers they don't care lol

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