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!

  • aichan@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    7 hours ago

    Never used it nor never will, I want my infra to be as independant as possible, and also fuck internet centralisation and fuck corpos

    • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      So I’ve done public DNS zone hosting and you can use let’s encrypt for certs and such, but

      • What about caches? I basically use to reduce load and network traffic reduction before it gets to me so I don’t have to run my own varnish cache and get regional caching to reduce repeat cross country calls for people on the other coasts.
      • What do you use for DDOS protection?

      Basically, cloudflare is free, and i get all that. If I find another place better, I’m open to jumping ship.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Not trying to get into a pissing contest, or twist your arm into anything…however, honest question: What do you consider your ISP? Centralized or no? I mean, there are only around 10 to 15 major Tier-1 backbone ISPs that I know of, everyone else contracts with them. There are about 12–14 true Tier-1 backbone providers that form the core of the global Internet, and a few dozen additional very large backbone networks (Tier 2) that also carry massive amounts of international internet traffic.