cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/30840627

Genuine question, so please don’t be mean to whoever responds. Better to learn than to judge.

Curious if people who are on Cloudflare are considering any selfhosted alternatives? If not, interested to hear what is a deal breaker in regards to using a service besides Cloudflare. I do hear a lot of praise for Cloudflare when facing DDOS, and always happy to learn more!

  • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
    311·
    2 months ago

    Yup, happy. A 3 hour outage once in a blue moon really isnt a big deal. Especially when I pay $0.

    I host a website for my partners business, and as I pointed out to them, while their website is down right now, so is everyone else’s, so not really losing customers.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I bought a domain from NamesCheap for less than $5 USD, and used the Cloudflare issued nameservers. Cloudflare does not require you to purchase a domain through them, but they do require you to use their nameservers for obvious reasons.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I wasn’t really inconvenienced by the outage. I got up to check a couple things that morning, saw apps were not responding, checked Cloudflare’s status page and noticed things were a bit wonky. So we’ll drop back to our trick back and rock on for the time being. At the very least, we’ll use the tried and true 192.168.1.110:7575…old school before everything is as nice as it is now.

      • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I have all my domains on my pihole pointed to the local address, so I only noticed when my uptime monitoring of the external sites started pinging me. But for me, the outage was at 10pm, so it really didn’t matter either way.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with

    Absolutely happy with Cloudflare Tunnels/ZeroTrust. Yes, I realize all the pros and cons. There are some good points made on both sides of the fence. Do I think it makes me less of a selfhoster? Nah. I don’t really have any interest in pedantic, hair splitting, of definitions. Cloudflare isn’t all that I use tho. I use Tailscale on my stand alone pFsense firewall, and on the server itself as an overlay layer of protection. I also use Duckdns in conjunction with LetsEncrypt on my VPS, however, I wanted something that I felt was more secure on my homelab, and Cloudflare fit the bill.

    That is not to say I am in this blindly. If at some point Cloudflare, or any other service I use, doesn’t suit it’s purpose anymore, I can always move on to something else. Monitor, and make choices based on those observations. We should do that with any service, software, opensource or closed source anyways.

  • node815@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I moved my setups to Pangolin and placed it on a VPS and then just have been using it since and is about the same as I could run it with a CDN such as Cloudflare. I know Cloudflare has better security with things but I also use Crowdsec which has been nice for keeping most things away. I host my email through Mxroute so it’s never an issue. While Cloudflare has been very stable for years, this last outage didn’t affect me like it would have, although I’m just use the stuff or my purposes.

    I left Cloudflare because I was ready to move away from there and found that Pangolin offered what I was looking for. No hard feelings either way toward Cloudflare at all.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Pangolin

      I will say that Pangolin is pretty tight. It combines a lot of the things you would normally have to deploy separately. Nice package.