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.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

We dislike it because nobody needs it. Nobody here is getting DDoS'd to any extend that needs external protection.

I'm talking anecdotally but it seems to me that all the people who ride-or-die Cloudflare are also self-hosters who aren't very knowledgeable about self-hosting concepts and just heard that cloudflare protects against all these imaginary problems because they sure do sound scary!

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, I don’t use it for DDOS protection. I use it as a cdn, which is something I absolutely cannot self host. At least not on a budget.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I ask with genuine curiosity, what do you need a CDN for?

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

I host a GameVault server with a largeish number of games, but the people who use the server span the entirety of the globe. The number of people isn’t huge, but serving a 100GB file to SEA from the US just isn’t going to be a good time for anyone involved.

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