candyman337@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 24 天前Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?message-squaremessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1374arrow-down18
arrow-up1366arrow-down1message-squareCloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?candyman337@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 24 天前message-square84fedilink
minus-squarebig_slap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·24 天前it’s very concerning, but what are the alternatives?
minus-squareZwrt@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·24 天前Someone please give a serious answer please. My selfhosting gimmick is “no reliance on things outside my control”
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·24 天前Well, lemmy. That worked fine.
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·24 天前You need to create your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers.
minus-squaredarklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·24 天前While some of the things that Cloudflare do are only possible through their massive scale, they also do a lot of things that are perfectly fine to do successfully also on a smaller scale. For one example of one such thing, see: https://dev.to/carrie_luo1/how-i-replaced-cloudflare-waf-with-an-open-source-self-hosted-alternative-2k1h
minus-squarebig_slap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 天前I have to look into something like this, thanks for the resource
it’s very concerning, but what are the alternatives?
Someone please give a serious answer please.
My selfhosting gimmick is “no reliance on things outside my control”
Well, lemmy. That worked fine.
my lemmy was down
You need to create your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers.
Multiple instances gives redundancy
While some of the things that Cloudflare do are only possible through their massive scale, they also do a lot of things that are perfectly fine to do successfully also on a smaller scale.
For one example of one such thing, see:
https://dev.to/carrie_luo1/how-i-replaced-cloudflare-waf-with-an-open-source-self-hosted-alternative-2k1h
I have to look into something like this, thanks for the resource
Fastly?