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?

  • trijste@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    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.