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Though I'm not a big fan of centralization, I use cloudflare. Their DDoS protection is unmatched, they have scraping protection, and just in case they decide to screw their users over, switching to another service is trivial.
@lena@gregtech.eu Have you been in need of DDoS protection and which alternatives did you try if they're the best?
I don't see why they would screw their users over if their users basically enable them to track visitors across the internet for free.
They're all in the same boat. If they're free, you're the product.
Akamai and Cloudfront are their biggest competitors, and you're not getting anywhere near the features out of them.
Can't do without it, can't afford to pay for it. Hell, if you can afford to pay for it, you're likely still the product.
And, yes, you do need it to avoid drowning in bullshit network traffic. The last few personal projects I put up went immediately through the free bandwidth on bot/scraper/AI traffic.
Maybe your ISP allows you to host and gives you ipv4, or you can afford a decent VPS, but that's not everyone.
I can host some bullshit stuff out of my house with their tunnel instead of paying for a seedbox, worth it imo, not hosting anything private.
The next step up to replicate it completely would be to buy vm with full control, run anubis on it, wireguard it back to my house to my hosted gear. I'm still getting requests out the ass at the seedbox, no high availability, no caching, paying twice for my traffic.
or, I can run set up an account, run a single tunnel to a pi in my basement and call it a day.