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!

  • irmadlad@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    More eloquent than anything I could conjure up. In the ‘at least it’s not Cloudflare’ column, how do you feel about https://ngrok.com/ or similar? I’ve never explored those avenues, but from what I hear, ngrok is fairly popular.

    • MinFapper@startrek.website
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      58 minutes ago

      ngrok isn’t just for development.

      That’s news to me lol. I’ve personally only used them for development so I can’t tell you how good they are for running production services.

      I just looked at their pricing page and it looks like the Free and Hobbyist only include 1GB and 5GB of data, respectively. I’ve never actually measured my data usage because Cloudflare gives unlimited data, but I suspect that’s nowhere near enough for a photo sharing app like Immich.