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!
Something like Cloudflare can’t really be self hosted. Their big point is being a huge cloud service that can absorb DDoSes for you.
Right, hence the topic: People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative? The DDoS protection is constantly mentioned, so wondering if something comparable could be implemented with a (more) self hosted service
Yeah I’m just saying there isn’t really one. There’s nothing to consider really at least for their web front-end which is their main service. I love self hosting and I don’t use Cloudflare but if I had a public site prone to DDoS i’d have to.
You can’t host that yourself because you can’t get a connection capable of handling such amounts of traffic. Only a hyperscaler can.
However what you could do is have a script that checks whether they are up and if not to send traffic to your server directly. In doing that you expose its address though.
I don’t use their tunnels either because they’re pretty unsafe. I don’t want people being able to access web services inside my network without authentication. I use a mesh VPN instead.