21 thoughts on “Access Your Self Hosted Services WITHOUT Port Forwarding

  • Actually I don't understand everybody's enthusiasm about giving Cloudflare full control over your data!? The company is able to read all your data running through the tunnel – and you don't know who else can.

  • Your tutorial is fantastic. I was struggling with how to get my homelab accessible since im on a community managed internet and get internet through a ap installed in my apartment so i cannot port forward. This is by far the simplest solution and worked flawlessly.

  • Great tutorial! Some of the menus in Cloudflare have changed now but I could still find everything and get it all working.

  • Can you do this with a Minecraft/Terraria server?

  • Got this working for Unraid web GUI. But how to configure for nextcloud docker as its showing bad gateway?

  • is there any tuts for docker/portainer?

  • Cloudflare …. If you do not need video or photo thransfering from/to your site true it its ok but … but there is limits and pretty Hard to find ind license agreements you must agree with … so i prefer another more transparent services…

  • I have been looking for an answer to this for days, and I cant seem to figure it out …

    I am pretty tech savvy (I was an electronics tech. in the navy) but I am really teaching myself the networking side of things for a sort of hobby. I am trying to set up jellyfin to be remote accessible through an unraid server. What IP address do I use for my external IP to set up the tunnel through Cloudflare? Do i also use this to set up the record? I actually used your guide last night and got it working, security check application and all, but this morning the tunnel wasn't working again. I'm sort of assuming that I used the wrong IP address, or I used an IP address that is no longer relevant.

    I guess the root of my question is this: does the unraid server have it's own IP, or do I need to use the IP of a docker container? Is there a specific container I need to install so that there is a static IP? or do I just use the ip of the jellyfin server? Do i need to just force the jellyfin container to ahve a static IP? Am I skipping some ultra-basic step here that I am going to kick myself for not understanding?

    Last night I just used the IP address listed in the Jellyfin docker info, and honestly I was sort of surprised that it worked, and I'm also not really all that surprised that it no longer works. What is the best way to do this? I feel like I've been watching hours and hours of tutorial, and at the point of setup where you need to enter an IP to create a record or a tunnel, everyone just says "just put in your IP" and I'm like, "WHAT IP?!?!?!"

  • very cool @DBTechYT !!
    Do you (or anyone else) know is this also works with running your app inside Kubernetes? Would you need to expose the cloudflare agent or your app with a ClusterIP or NodePort?

  • Many thanks this helped me get up and running from scratch. I stopped forwarding ports on my home setup and switched over to cloudflare.
    One addition: you can use your container names instead of IP addresses when configuring public hosting, for example "homeassistant:8123"

  • The only issue i can see using this is if you decide to use it for remote access to a plex/jelly server as from what I read it is against TOS they have

  • Can anyone tell me how this would be used in related to a reverse proxy? I have purchased my own domain name and SSL cert via GoDaddy, and now I’m trying to assess whether it would make more sense to do something like Network Chuck’s Kemp Load Balancer, a simple NGINX reverse proxy, or Cloudflare tunnels. Bandwidth isn’t an issue for me, but I’d like to avoid purchasing a wildcard cert if possible (and am looking at LetsEncrypt Certbot via Docker if I did need to do subdomains).

    Honestly if anyone with experience on these could just tell what the biggest pros/cons are to Cloud Flare Tunnels vs. Load Balancing vs. NGINX it would be super appreciated!

  • I truly hate “affordable and cheap” lie in linode sponsorship ads, do you think everyone lives in a good country whoever made up that line?

  • Nice Cloudfare 💙😎🤘
    However can I access not just the domain but my home computer without having to port forward…this seems like it's only for the domain itself and not your device…is it possible without port forwarding and SSHing ???

  • Pretty cool. My 443 forward gets slammed several times / day. Only thing keeping people out is a long ass pass phrase, letters, caps, numbers & symbols. Would love to shut down my port forward, Cloudfair looks like a great option. If Cloudfair uses something like a Yubiekey or authentication app, setting up a tunnel is a no brainer. Not too big on SMS & email codes.

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