[CentOS-mirror] Offer new US mirror, but use Cloudflare for proxy?

Sun Mar 28 04:02:05 UTC 2021
kylem at serverforge.org <kylem at serverforge.org>

I believe this would violate cloudflares TOS. Excerpt and link below. It also would probably not have the best performance.

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content

The Services are offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Services solely for the purpose of (i) serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications, including rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents, and (ii) serving web APIs subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.8. 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. If we determine you have breached this Section 2.8, we may immediately suspend or restrict your use of the Services, or limit End User access to certain of your resources through the Services.


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From: Russell Jones <arjones85 at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2021 11:41 PM
To: centos-mirror at centos.org
Subject: [CentOS-mirror] Offer new US mirror, but use Cloudflare for proxy?

Hello admin,

I would like to offer a new US CentOS mirror, but I will need to use Cloudflare to proxy the requests. I have a gigabit up/down connection that will be stable, however the ATT provided gateway/router/modem combo chokes on a large amount of different IP addresses coming in at once. I have found that if I route the traffic through Cloudflare, it can handle the 200 or so unique IP's Cloudflare uses without an issue. I am currently hosting EPEL and Fedora Buffet public mirrors without any problems this way.

Any issues with this setup? 


Thanks!
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