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Proxy and/or reverse proxy is where my understanding of pipes and tubes gets pretty scant. Is that cloudflare link similar to what I feel like I normally see set up with nginx? I want to eventually set it up so my server is accessible from outside my home network (watching Plex would be pretty neat while on the road in the RV), and I feel like a test Lemmy server would be good practice.
Is it normal practice? Maybe 50/50. A lot of self holsters will tell you to use a cloudflare tunnel no matter what. It does help weed out a lot of bots. If you open a port and look at the access log in nginx, you will see thousands of attempts daily. It's basically bots constantly scanning the ipv4 range fishing for common vulnerabilies. I cloudflare will filter a lot of that out.
Personally I use cloudflare, but only for Lemmy. My other hosted applications don't use it, it's too complicated (and cloudflare can see your data). I use it for Lemmy to mask my ip address.
For plex, I would just allows Plex to open port 32400 and use their setup. Plus, cloudflare could ban you for streaming through their tunnel. It violated their TOS.