Both Lemmy.world and my server rely upon Cloudflare for SSL, DDOS protection, CDN services, etc. I use it to provide me with a Cloudflare tunnel to get around not being able to forward ports.
Outages have put this dependance to question, and the same with recent news about the US government obtaining data through subpoenas. It’s a free service that takes care of many of the difficulties when it comes to hosting your service online, but everyone knows that free is not free.
What do you all think about Cloudflare?
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Decent idea, but too much power centralized to one company.
it’s making the internet centralized and proprietary, i hate it. i do understand how it’s a very easy option for website operators struggling against malicious bots though.
Isn’t Cloudflare more like the thin horizontal block above that one?
I use Hostinger but it isn’t free, $1.99/mo deal at the moment, normally like 13. It does blocking like cloudflare. AI scraping blocking too
I used to use them, but found that since I’m only hosting for myself, I just don’t benefit much (if at all) from their services. The only thing that was actually doing any amount of work was Tunnel (similar to you, I can’t forward ports).
Their service decrypts/snoops on your traffic by nature, and while my traffic is mostly just updating todo lists, taking notes, and backing up photos, I also sync my keepass database and in general just don’t want my data snooped on.
I’ve since rolled my own Tunnel equivalent with frp on a VPS and have completely dropped CF.
It’s a great service and it works mostly well. The internet is a little bit better because of them.
It’s also optional and simple to transition away from since they don’t host your environment.
Easy fix, just ban the act of DDoSsing… duh 🙄
/j
It keeps blocking my VPN, which is highly irritating.
I found it when I needed to access a service I had running in a docker container from an external machine. It was magic at the time. I’ve used it to host private GitHub repos with access controls and it works for that too. I haven’t developed a strong opinion perhaps because of its utility.
It really is like magic. Also happy cake day.
Oh hey! Thanks :)
