filebrowser is Easy to Use

Have you heard of filebrowser? NextCloud might be more famous for file servers.

filebrowser is open source, and if you want to run it on Windows, just launching the exe completes all setup.

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebrowser/get/master/get.ps1 | iex
filebrowser -r /path/to/your/files

Check the official site for details, but just this launches a file server.

What’s great about filebrowser is that files are directly stored under a single specified root folder. This makes it convenient to manage file backups however you want.

Connecting via Cloudflare Tunnel

Check the official site for details, but simply put, it’s a free L7 tunnel service for localhost, allowing you to host services without a global IP.

However, there’s a limitation: you can only send up to 100MB per request. So chunking is necessary.

Let’s Try It

I’ll create a 110MB file and experiment. Set the chunk size to 110MB. Sending a request results in error 413 Payload Too Large. Set the chunk size to 99MB. I confirmed the request was split into two.

Of course, this software itself has password authentication, but if you’re worried about access, consider using Cloudflare Access together.