hi is there any local cloudflare alternative becourse from my reading it seems that that using it for jellyfin is against cloudflares TOS and i would like to get jellyfin to my domain but i dont wanna pay for it, so a loxal alternative would probably be my best bet, i also would prefer not to open any ports
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Just attempting to setup pihole + some DNS rules for this, but can’t yet say it works cause I haven’t gotten that far
okay, send me a text when you got it working
If you don’t want to open any ports, then you will need to setup a VPN service. Tailscale is one of the easiest to use VPNs out there.
Have you thought about using DuckDNS.org?
I run mine through them (it’s free) because I couldn’t work through using my own hosting since my host makes things super complicated.
well from my little knolage about them you need to use their domain right?
Yeah you create the subdomain and use their domain. It’s a free DNS service that prevents you from having to buy your own domain and host and setup all the DNS security yourself.
but i would like to have my own domain
I don’t think I understand your original question then.
If you want your jellyfin on your own domain like Oliper202020.com, that requires owning a domain which requires registration which incurs a cost.
If you don’t want to pay for something, just use a DNS service to redirect through their domain instead.
i want to spend money on the domain, i just dont want to pay money for a cloudflare alternative or one of the paid subscriptions
You can use your own domain and set a CNAME to any of the DDNS ones. So eg. home.mydomain.com can be a CNAME for oliper.ddns.com.
Maybe look into Tailscale. At the end of the day, someone needs to open up the ports, but Tailscale does it strictly to negotiate a VPN connection between two devices, so they don’t see the traffic that goes over the tunnel.
is there then a way to get it to a domain or do i need to install tailscale on every device?
I do Tailscale on every device, but they also have a Funnel service that might work for you
does this mean i can connect it to my domain and can nginx then route traffic from other vms trough to other subdomains?
would there maybe be a way with npm to only open up port 80 and run everything through there?
Don’t expose Jellyfin to the internet
Jellyfin specifically or just anything in general?
Do it with a reverse proxy and set 2FA before it (and break native app functionaility).
Don’t expose it to the internet
Set proper ACLs and you are probably fine.
Don’t proxy jellyfin through CF.
Using it for the domain or subdomain is fine.You know it’s not proxied because the cloud is gray instead of yellow.
And if you ping the domain it’s your own IP instead of a cloudflare ip.ohhh, so i can do it through cloudflare without breaking TOS? or am i misunderstanding?
Nope. It’s doable and permitted as long as the traffic is not proxied (gray cloud)
okay, im gonna look into it later
