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Something like Cloudflare can't really be self hosted. Their big point is being a huge cloud service that can absorb DDoSes for you.
Right, hence the topic: People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative? The DDoS protection is constantly mentioned, so wondering if something comparable could be implemented with a (more) self hosted service
Yeah I'm just saying there isn't really one. There's nothing to consider really at least for their web front-end which is their main service. I love self hosting and I don't use Cloudflare but if I had a public site prone to DDoS i'd have to.
You can't host that yourself because you can't get a connection capable of handling such amounts of traffic. Only a hyperscaler can.
However what you could do is have a script that checks whether they are up and if not to send traffic to your server directly. In doing that you expose its address though.
I don't use their tunnels either because they're pretty unsafe. I don't want people being able to access web services inside my network without authentication. I use a mesh VPN instead.