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!
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