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So, with the Cloudflare outage, I have found my self hosted services are not accessible outside of the home. I use a SWAG reverse proxy from linuxserver.io and bought my domain through cloudflare. I'm fairly new at this stuff, so is this a secure way of doing things? Does cloudflare have access to my data? I'm fairly new at this, so I apologize if this is a silly question. Is there some way to self host what cloudflare does?

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Self-hosting an authoritative dns server is not a good idea for several reasons.

Cloudflare doesn’t have access to data hosted in your server unless you’re using their reverse proxy tunnel.

A momentary (if severe) blip in their availability isn’t a good reason to change providers.

[–] srasmus@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's the conclusion I'm coming to. Saw a lot of posts from self hosters happy they aren't affected by this. Figured there was some reason NOT to use Cloudflare (security, etc.). But it kind of just seems like a personal preference. Cloudflare has certainly had better uptime than all my services thus far 🙂

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Many would be self-hosting behind a VPN so are less affected by public DNS issues.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cloudflare is a business service primarily and the people who should be worried about its monopoly are the businesses, not so much a handful of people running home servers.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

not so much a handful of people running home servers

Oh you'll smoke a turd in hell for your insolence. lol