i am running nginx proxy manager and have it pointed at my plex server, which if i use my ip address on port 32400, it works just fine. when pausing CF and attempting to connect to dave-tv.com, it times out
That points to something wrong with configuraton/proxy at origin if you’ve got this issue when Cloudflare is paused.
Is this the local port or?
For proxied hostname e.g. example.com and for Web traffic HTTP(S) you can use below ones which are supported and compatible:
like i said, if i punch in my ip :32400 it opens right up (32400 is just the standard port for my plex server, Im using it for testing because I know it works fine so im elimination any possibility of unrelated errors) when cloudlare is paused I dont get an error it just times out
only when i use www.dave-tv.com or dave-tv.com do I get the 523
If you’re proxying at the origin, then the local 32400 should go to one of the compatible and supported ones with Cloudflare on the list from the article linked in my previous reply.
Nevertheless, there is Spectrum feature but it costs and I’d not suggest it for such case.
Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN.
I could suggest using cloudfalred tunnel for Plex, but you might end up in a ToS violation: