2025-02-21, 12:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 2025-02-21, 12:08 AM by bjd223. Edited 1 time in total.)
Just be careful pushing video through Cloudflare, even though they removed the video limitation from their TOS apparently they are still banning heavy users who eat up too much bandwidth on the free tier.
Anyway as you may know simply putting a service behind a reverse proxy does not automatically increase security. It's only when you start adding services on top of that.
I don't use Cloudflare specifically but things like geo IP blocking, IP banning (which you already mentioned, DDoS mitigation (not really hacking but annoying none the less), SSL are some good things to consider using.
As far as running a web server I would make sure it is up to date as possible at all times, and put it on its own VLAN, docker network, whatever, so it is only routable to the Internet and not your network.
Web servers are pretty high on the radar of hackers so you would want to take some extra care with one.
Anyway as you may know simply putting a service behind a reverse proxy does not automatically increase security. It's only when you start adding services on top of that.
I don't use Cloudflare specifically but things like geo IP blocking, IP banning (which you already mentioned, DDoS mitigation (not really hacking but annoying none the less), SSL are some good things to consider using.
As far as running a web server I would make sure it is up to date as possible at all times, and put it on its own VLAN, docker network, whatever, so it is only routable to the Internet and not your network.
Web servers are pretty high on the radar of hackers so you would want to take some extra care with one.