I am using my domain. Best 10€ ever spent (maybe after Terraria). For just 10€ I get a .org domain name and all the DNS records I want, and I get pampered by cloudflare all the time...

"Oh, you want a distributed reverse proxy? You want a dislocated cache? You won't TLS without getting a certificate? Block AI on the proxy? Even more stuff? Well guess what, we already make a bajillion dollars from big tech, so you the little guy can have all of that included in your 10€"

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Yeah this is why I don’t get the selfhosting communities dislike of cloudflare. Most of the free stuff they give you, you can’t hope to self host. And the stuff you can, you are still free to. There’s the chance they turn on us in the future, but for now they seem pretty reliable.

Now if it’s a dislike of centralization to a single company? I can understand that.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

The problem with cloudflare is when everyone relies on them, then if something happens to them, they take the whole internet offline... its much like when aws has issues, half the internet just stops working. It undermines the concept that the internet is a federation.

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