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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!

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yup, happy. A 3 hour outage once in a blue moon really isnt a big deal. Especially when I pay $0.

I host a website for my partners business, and as I pointed out to them, while their website is down right now, so is everyone else's, so not really losing customers.

[–] kiol@discuss.online 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So, are you using a domain you've registered for the site with cloudflare?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

I bought a domain from NamesCheap for less than $5 USD, and used the Cloudflare issued nameservers. Cloudflare does not require you to purchase a domain through them, but they do require you to use their nameservers for obvious reasons.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. I bought the domain through them, to keep it all nice and simple.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

you bought one? Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are no domains that are infinite time ownership (AFAIK, please correct me if I'm wrong), but its pretty close to ownership. I have the rights to the domain for 10 years, and I get first dibs on renewal after that. So its sorta renting/sorta owning?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?

It's like paying off and owning a house. Sure, you own it, but quit paying state taxes (assuming US, or Council Tax and Business Rates for UK etc) for a very long time and find out what happens. LOL

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wasn't really inconvenienced by the outage. I got up to check a couple things that morning, saw apps were not responding, checked Cloudflare's status page and noticed things were a bit wonky. So we'll drop back to our trick back and rock on for the time being. At the very least, we'll use the tried and true 192.168.1.110:7575...old school before everything is as nice as it is now.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

I have all my domains on my pihole pointed to the local address, so I only noticed when my uptime monitoring of the external sites started pinging me. But for me, the outage was at 10pm, so it really didn't matter either way.