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I use it for a couple websites. I'm a geek and can make things work software wise but I'm absolutely not a programmer, I just don't really grasp a lot of it. Give me some hardware and I can build whatever but I digress. Cloudflare has prevented a bunch of attacks on my sites and the caching function is helping stave off switching to a VPS for now.

It can be a PITA if you don't have native IPv6 and use Hurricane Electric's IPv6 tunnel broker. A lot of sites that are hooked into cloudflare and some other similar services pop up captcha's every visit or just pain don't function correctly. I'm going to switch to Route64 as an alternative to HE, they only provide a /56 vs a /48 but it's not like I'm going to need that many /64's at this point.

I mainly use Cloudflare for buying domains and DNS settings. Are there better, more resilient alternatives? I am not savvy enough for a hyper custom setup. I think I've seen Porkbun mentioned. I've used name cheap before. I do pay for NextDNS - is that something that could fit into this? I don't think so but maybe I'm underutilizing it.

Self-host or die trying !

for most of the time,indifferent.
Turnslide is nice,DDOS protection is nice,etc

I found it when I needed to access a service I had running in a docker container from an external machine. It was magic at the time. I’ve used it to host private GitHub repos with access controls and it works for that too. I haven’t developed a strong opinion perhaps because of its utility.

I’d say selfhosting is the shelf that is standing under this.

I used to use them, but found that since I'm only hosting for myself, I just don't benefit much (if at all) from their services. The only thing that was actually doing any amount of work was Tunnel (similar to you, I can't forward ports).

Their service decrypts/snoops on your traffic by nature, and while my traffic is mostly just updating todo lists, taking notes, and backing up photos, I also sync my keepass database and in general just don't want my data snooped on.

I've since rolled my own Tunnel equivalent with frp on a VPS and have completely dropped CF.

I use Hostinger but it isn’t free, $1.99/mo deal at the moment, normally like 13. It does blocking like cloudflare. AI scraping blocking too

Admin of Feddit.dk. We try not to use non-EU suppliers and I don't like the idea of depending so fully on something like Cloudflare. I could see us using an EU equivalent but don't really see the need right now.

I kinda picture it more like this: https://media.gettyimages.com/id/200550933-001/photo/young-woman-lying-in-bed-hiding-under-pillow-smiling-portrait.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=0JIF0lpDQnUeSor0EpWfNOzXpw94KFBj1KaPZaslltE%3D