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!

      • forbiddenlake@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        You might want to be more specific, cloud flare has a lot of different products, and you’re getting answers with differing assumptions.

        For the self hosted focus, I use tail scale already, and when (not if) that company gets shitty, I will switch to head scale, or a competitor, or straight wire guard (plus firewall etc).

        But I also run web sites on cf, and there’s no real alternative, definitely not for free. I don’t have hundreds of millions to spend on the CDN part, for starters.

      • Ninjasftw@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        That’s only one very small component of what cloudflare does.
        We were affected by the recent issues and spent some time working out alternatives to all the features we use. It was daunting…

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Cloudflare is a massive cdn, so it’s point is to front end traffic not just doing routing.

        The problem is to get anything close to cloudflare you’d need massive scale and networking ability.

        Like self hosting containers or vms. There’s a point you have to go to the cloud