[your_challenger]

Is cloudflare tunnels really this free to support thousands of internet requests?

I run a windows server at my office where we connect to it using RDP from multiple locations. If I could instead buy the hardware and use cloudflare tunnels to let my team RDP to it then it would save me a lot of money. I could recoup my hardware cost in less than a year. Would this be possible?

(I wouldn't mind paying for cloudflare tunnels / zero trust. It just should be much smaller than the monthly payment I make to Microsoft)

[philip1209]

Yup. Cloudflare's typical proxy already handles massive amounts of traffic, so I expect that the marginal cost of this reverse proxy isn't that high.

I do think Cloudflare has proven itself to be very developer/indie-friendly. One of the only tech unicorns that really doesn't impose its morality on customers.

[nemothekid]

I used Cloudflare Tunnels for a project that had hundreds of tunnels did roughly 10GB/day of traffic entirely for free. The project has since moved to Cloudflare Enterprise, where the project pays the opposite of free, but was completely expected as the project grew.

I'm pretty sure Tunnels supports RDP and if you don't use a ton of bandwidth (probably under a 1TB/mo), Cloudflare probably won't bother you.