DNS Proxy for media server?
I know previously the rule of thumb was disable DNS proxy when using cloudflare due to ToS breach but looking at the noted documents, there is no talk of this anymore. Can anyone validate if I'm allowed to run my media server through the proxy now or not?
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It just got moved and reworded: https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/
The Cloudflare Blog
Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
We’re excited to announce new updates that will modernize our terms of service and hopefully cut down on customer confusion and frustration.
Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.pretty much the same though. Need Enterprise to proxy video, or use Cloudflare R2 or Stream products to host the content.
Sad, thank you for letting me know. Got into my head about security of my server and hoped this would be an easy extra layer, but alas, I will continue searching!
That being said, it does depend on exactly what you are trying to do. I would read this: https://discord.com/channels/595317990191398933/1128753516081582192/1129499373722673243
https://discord.com/channels/595317990191398933/1128753516081582192/1197316409299058770
That's good to know. It'll mostly be for me and my wife either while I'm at work or for music while she's out and about. I'll definitely have to test my data usage and see if I'm gonna be getting an email or not
I think you should try https://tailscale.com. It is a VPN directly between your devices/servers without any server. So in the app you chose the mmedia server and tailscale either routes your whole data through your media server or only the requests to the mediaserver (probably what i want).
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You told me the services I should purchase. I broadcast using Cloudflare Workers, it is postpaid and I pay for it, but still, when there are high visitors, loading times in cloudflare workers get longer. Is cloudflare considering doing a study for this?
I'm pretty sure I never told you about what services you should purchase, and I don't understand what you mean by broadcast, but Workers themselves have no issues with scale and won't increase latency with more visitors. People including me have done load testing using tools such as loader.io with Workers, and those can do up to 10k clients (few thousand requests/s) straight from 0 requests/second to a Worker without any increase in latency. They run on the same machine as the user hits, no special scaling magic or lbs or anything. Your latency would be from something else.
Not sure what this thread has to do with your issue either, if you need help please create your own.
What I mean by the broadcast is that when everything is fine with the HLS software, that is, for .m3u8 and .ts m3u8 files, but when there are high visitors for .ts files, workers start uploading a 1 MB .ts file in 20-40 seconds.
Upload is going to be really based on the user's upload speed and what you're uploading to.
Please make your own post in #general-help rather then hijacking someone else's if you need more help with that
Dude, you don't need to be so harsh, I just commented on a post where I had the same problem. This title will help more people who have the same problem to express their problems instead of pollution.