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codingpanic ◴[] No.30285554[source]
I'm under the impression that this is against CloudFlare's ToS, otherwise I'd probably be doing it myself.

See section 2.8 "Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content." of their subscriber agreement:

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 or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service.

Last I checked, SSH is non-html content. I even opened a support ticket with their support, specifically asking about SSH and other traffic and this is what I received: So if no matter what service you use, Once you breach this rule it will be applied.

EDIT: Looks like the CloudFlare CTO has clarified things below that this usage does not in fact violate the ToS.

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jgrahamc ◴[] No.30285656[source]
That's for Cloudflare's CDN/reverse-proxy service.

This is the correct one for Cloudflare Tunnel: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...

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1. throwaway058492 ◴[] No.30289158[source]
It's not clear to me what is allowed. Would I risk a termination if I used the service to proxy ~500 GB per month of video content?

(I'm looking for a way to get around bad traffic shaping I get in the afternoon between two locations streaming live TV.)