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?
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.