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!
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.
So, are you using a domain you’ve registered for the site with cloudflare?
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.
Yes. I bought the domain through them, to keep it all nice and simple.
you bought one? Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?
There are no domains that are infinite time ownership (AFAIK, please correct me if I’m wrong), but its pretty close to ownership. I have the rights to the domain for 10 years, and I get first dibs on renewal after that. So its sorta renting/sorta owning?
A few hours of downtime in all the years I’ve been using them? That’s a better record than my actual services have.
A lot of people underestimate what cloudflare does and while it was a massive incident in scale minuscule compared to others recent ones other large companies have had
There’s not a way to self host what cloudflare does though
What about Pangolin? Or, are you thinking of other aspects?
That’s only one very small component of what cloudflare does.
We were affected by the recent issues and spent some time working out alternatives to all the features we use. It was daunting…
