Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
I finally got external access to my homelab working! It’s been one of those long weekend projects that’s taken far too many long weekends.
…also hi, I’m new to this community. Based in Ōtepoti since 2002 :)
Welcome! It’s always great when you finally get something up and running that you’ve been working on for a while. Did you just go for a reverse proxy and port forwarding, a Cloudflare tunnel, or something fancier?
Went with a Cloudflare tunnel in the end, which I’ll be able to make more use of as time goes on :)
Ah yes a classic. Some things that might catch you out as you built out your home lab, things that caught me out:
This all applies to the free version of Cloudflare, presumably you can do more if you pay.
I have spent countless hours trying to solve issues caused by these things without knowing they were the cause 😅
Good to know, that might be a problem with Navidrome later on, I’ll see how often I hit the limits.
I don’t think music will be an issue. Streaming lots of video (like with Jellyfin) has gotten some people blocked, you hear stories occasionally.
Most of the problems I had were trying to uploaded big videos (300MB+) to Zusam, a sort of private sharing forum. I hit both the request limit and the timeout when trying to upload via a slow connection.
If you can, set DNS entries within your network as well so things you do at home don’t have to go via Cloudflare.
That’ll be my next job, I tested music streaming all day today and didn’t run up against any limits. Good thing to note about Jellyfin too.