Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

smalltorch

It's a nice ability, but I dont like the terms of use.

user3939382

I just spent a week writing a harness around the existing tunnels to make this by hand.

dangoodmanUT

Historically, we’ve found that their tunnels have really high latency variance. For example something that’s normally 30-50ms to ec2 is now 115ms-750ms

ThrowawayTestr

No-ip gives out free dynamic DNS with a static URL. I use it for Sunshine desktop streaming when I travel.

kincl

Is this their version of https://tailscale.com/tailcat ? I can't tell if you need to auth edit: yeah, it says no account creation, neat!

ZeroCool2u

This is handy, but I wonder how much it will cannibalize their services. I have a simple app deployed on cloudflare for a very niche single purpose use, but I wouldn't have bothered if I had this. Serving it from my own machine would have been fine.

aliasxneo

Tunneling was something that recently fell out of the work I've been doing [1]. I've used Cloudflare Tunnels before but I just have low trust with them recently with how big they are getting. All of these nice things come at the cost of pushing _a lot_ of traffic through their systems. [1]: https://dntls.substack.com/p/the-new-internet

whizzter

Don't all these free proxy services always fall prey to blacklists because scammers,etc abuse them until they're useless?

JV00

Does this have a more generous allowance than ngrok? From what I can read no limits are mentioned

Narciss

My AI discovered this days ago when I wanted to deploy a new vibe coded website (it was to keep score while playing whist and rentz) Thought it was very cool

smalltorch

If your a hobbiest or dev just testing your services, it makes more sense to utilize onion services imho. It does the exact same thing, except supported by a global network of volunteers around the world. Sure, you get some latency, but this is actually ideal for testing. You should know how your service operates in non optimal lightning fast conditions.

himata4113

This has existed for a long time and has been abused by quite a few people. I've seen some cc nodes using a random known cloudflare site and spoofing hostname to a temporary cloudflare site. IMO this should require a login at bare minimum.

cute_boi

what a sloppy website, did cloudflare fired bunch of ui/ux designer? Every text is slop lol.

xeornet

Looks like they straight up vibe coded the landing page lol.

tombert

I like Cloudflare Tunnels a lot, but something that annoys me is that officially you're not allowed to use them for streaming video, meaning I can't put it in front of my Jellyfin without breaking TOS. I think that rule is more of a "we reserve the right to..." rule, but it makes me sad because I'd rather not open up ports on my router to expose my Jellyfin to my parents.

rplnt

Are we in an age where no one even bothers to open the product pages they generate? The first subtitle with the font color almost matching the background. Or it's even worse that a human looked at it and said "yep, that's OK"?

israrkhan

For someone looking for an opensource solutions, following is an awesome resource for tunnelling https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling I have played around with frp, bore and ngrok.

damsta

The website looks broken in dark mode on Firefox.

ggg011012

Quick Tunnels look great for demos and temporary dev environments. I’d still be hesitant to make them part of a long-lived production setup.