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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!

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with

Absolutely happy with Cloudflare Tunnels/ZeroTrust. Yes, I realize all the pros and cons. There are some good points made on both sides of the fence. Do I think it makes me less of a selfhoster? Nah. I don't really have any interest in pedantic, hair splitting, of definitions. Cloudflare isn't all that I use tho. I use Tailscale on my stand alone pFsense firewall, and on the server itself as an overlay layer of protection. I also use Duckdns in conjunction with LetsEncrypt on my VPS, however, I wanted something that I felt was more secure on my homelab, and Cloudflare fit the bill.

That is not to say I am in this blindly. If at some point Cloudflare, or any other service I use, doesn't suit it's purpose anymore, I can always move on to something else. Monitor, and make choices based on those observations. We should do that with any service, software, opensource or closed source anyways.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago