Comment by codingpanic
3 years ago
I'm under the impression that this is against CloudFlare's ToS, otherwise I'd probably be doing it myself.
See section 2.8 "Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content." of their subscriber agreement:
use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service.
Last I checked, SSH is non-html content. I even opened a support ticket with their support, specifically asking about SSH and other traffic and this is what I received: So if no matter what service you use, Once you breach this rule it will be applied.
EDIT: Looks like the CloudFlare CTO has clarified things below that this usage does not in fact violate the ToS.
That's for Cloudflare's CDN/reverse-proxy service.
This is the correct one for Cloudflare Tunnel: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...
This seems to be the license for cloudflared. But when you use cloudflared to create a tunnel via cloudflare network, aren't you also bound to Cloudflare's ToS because the software itself is useless without using the service provided by Cloudflare?
I am literally Cloudflare's CTO. I'm pretty sure I know that using Cloudflare Tunnel for SSH isn't a violation of our service.
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It's not clear to me what is allowed. Would I risk a termination if I used the service to proxy ~500 GB per month of video content?
(I'm looking for a way to get around bad traffic shaping I get in the afternoon between two locations streaming live TV.)
It was strange reading this comment on Hacker News..
You will also find comments from CloudFlare folks here which suggests this use-case is sanctified.