Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 29/5/2026 (lemmy.nz)

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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

Something interesting that happened to you
Something humourous that happened to you
Something frustrating that happened to you
A quick question
A request for recommendations
Pictures of your pet
A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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[-] SlightlyBentForkTongV3@piefed.iridescent.nz 2 points 1 day ago

I finally got external access to my homelab working! It's been one of those long weekend projects that's taken far too many long weekends.

...also hi, I'm new to this community. Based in Ōtepoti since 2002 :)

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago

Welcome! It's always great when you finally get something up and running that you've been working on for a while. Did you just go for a reverse proxy and port forwarding, a Cloudflare tunnel, or something fancier?

[-] SlightlyBentForkTongV3@piefed.iridescent.nz 2 points 1 day ago

Went with a Cloudflare tunnel in the end, which I'll be able to make more use of as time goes on :)

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 20 hours ago

Ah yes a classic. Some things that might catch you out as you built out your home lab, things that caught me out:

Cloudflare has a 100 second timeout
Cloudflare has a 100MB request size limit
Cloudflare doesn't like you streaming large amounts of video
Cloudflare only does the HTTP and HTTPS ports. Services relying on other ports can fail.

This all applies to the free version of Cloudflare, presumably you can do more if you pay.

I have spent countless hours trying to solve issues caused by these things without knowing they were the cause 😅

[-] SlightlyBentForkTongV3@piefed.iridescent.nz 2 points 18 hours ago

Good to know, that might be a problem with Navidrome later on, I'll see how often I hit the limits.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 17 hours ago

I don't think music will be an issue. Streaming lots of video (like with Jellyfin) has gotten some people blocked, you hear stories occasionally.

Most of the problems I had were trying to uploaded big videos (300MB+) to Zusam, a sort of private sharing forum. I hit both the request limit and the timeout when trying to upload via a slow connection.

If you can, set DNS entries within your network as well so things you do at home don't have to go via Cloudflare.