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?
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.