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I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels

(david.coffee)
311 points eustoria | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yegle ◴[16 Nov 25 21:52 UTC] No.45948757[source]▶
Free Cloudflare account cannot be used to serve my Plex server. To me that's a no-go.

The specific term is: https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...

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tsimionescu ◴[17 Nov 25 07:39 UTC] No.45951591[source]▶
Why would anyone expect anyone else to serve video for them for free? Is there any CDN that serves video for you for free???

I'm not even talking about the copyright implications here, just the bandwidth costs. A single movie download would cost more than many hundreds of typical simple HTTP website sessions.

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hnarn ◴[17 Nov 25 08:48 UTC] No.45951906[source]▶
> Why would anyone expect anyone else to serve video for them for free?

I would expect that a freemium service selling encrypted "zero trust" networking should have no idea what traffic is being pushed through my network making enforcement impossible.

Nobody's asking for a free lunch, but the reasonable thing to do would be to simply bandwidth limit freemium accounts across the board, not make exceptions for certain kinds of traffic in what should be a secure network.

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1. pjc50 ◴[17 Nov 25 11:27 UTC] No.45952683{3}[source]▶
But those are different services. You linked the CDN TOS.

(I can, in practice, serve small amounts of video through the free CDN, by using HLS; I'm also aware that this needs to stay below the radar)

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2. hnarn ◴[17 Nov 25 17:32 UTC] No.45955832[source]▶
I didn’t link anything.