EASY Remote Access: How to setup CloudFlare Tunnels

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TOC:
00:00 Introduction to CloudFlare Tunnels and use cases
02:51 Requirements for setup
03:47 Creating a CloudFlare Tunnel
07:42 Direct traffic to Synology Drive
09:37 Using the custom link for file sharing
10:37 Security and access controls
14:15 Conclusion

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[jbarr]

Very nice! Cloudflare Tunnel + Application = joy!
I use this combination for most of my "restricted external" services. I've had zero issues. Thanks!

[PeterBatah]

Thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us. I have been using CF Tunnels for a while now. Running it in a Docker container on my Unraid server. Keep up the great work.

[DairyNZ]

My first few days owning a NAS and using cloudflare tunnels. I wanted to access a few devices on my network. I watched your video 5 times and finally got a connection working to my NAS. Thank you so much for sharing this information, much appreciated. Now for challenge number two, how to connect my other devices on my network.

[ireldaespinoza]

Wow you sound so intelligent and so much ahead of your game. God bless you. I hope someday I could really know what you're talking about. You were like talking a different language. I'm starting out from the bottom. Just learning all of these things and sometimes it gets overwhelming but I see someone like you that has dedicated their life to learning. Different kind of platforms is just amazing to me. I just wanted to learn how to put the www in front of my domain and I just can't even get that done let alone all the other things that you're talking about. But God bless you and thanks for the information

[AlfyahBwoy]

Important disclaimer: cloudflare tunnels do not allow the upload of files bigger than 100MB!!! This is due to their caching limitations on the free version. I don't know if there is a workaround.
This means that if you try to upload e.g. a video +100MB it will be stuck on the uploading cue.
This limitation does not apply to total size upload - let's say you have 5x50MB files in a folder you want to upload, it will upload perfectly fine-
Downloads are not affected by this limitation as far as I am concerned.

[YugimanTeam]

This is great for a first time self hoster or someone with limited financial means.

But I have to say for someone who can afford a Unifi, TP-Link Omada, or other Router that allows for "Conditional Port Forwarding" I would use that method instead, as I am trusting hardware that I personally have purchased to do the security portion for me by only allowing Cloudflare Ip Addresses to access your network through a reverse proxy.

Plus I feel better knowing my own hardware that i purchased and configured myself is managing the connection and security, instead of solely relying on Cloudflare and for them to not make a misconfiguration.

[RiGGeN]

very usefull for home made little proyects! thank you! keep up with the videos,

[glufke]

Awesome...Then one day, when everybody is using it, they start charging or limiting the usage. :-(
Sometimes I think that we should plan our future using the minimum of external services, like cloud, etc. One day they will screw everyone.

[damyanmp]

For my use cases upload 100MB limit, really makes Drive and Photos unsuable. It also seems Drive requires the 6690 port as well to sync files

[ireldaespinoza]

Just trying to navigate myself through the cloud flare is a challenge. I just don't even know where to go to put the www in front of my domain😢

[PrestonPalmer]

Suppose I wanted the same cloudflare tunnel to point me to another docker image, like Portainer or PaperlessNGX or something similar, how can I make this work?

[whoanelly-]

So you need to host your DNS with cloudflare then for tihs to work?

[DavidM]

Will, do you see any issues with setting up a VPN on a virtual machine hosted on a NAS and accessing that VM remotely ?

[ivans.]

How is it speed wise for file upload / download via DSM compared to using quick connect?

[omnebun]

Can it be set up for connecting 2 Synologys behind nat for transferig backups from one to another?

[chinyong]

Does it work for Synology Photos auto backup? or any other Synology mobile app.

[kubagancarz]

Is there any way to use this without public IP? Many ISP’s lately go for ipv6 without public IP, this nukes plex etc. From outside of my network. Any thoughts?

[skafte]

What about the dsm page it wont work :(

[Harisp]

How to remove limitation when uploading file over 100mb via cloudflare? 😢

[plotikai]

Can you use access authentication with mobile apps?