Both Lemmy.world and my server rely upon Cloudflare for SSL, DDOS protection, CDN services, etc. I use it to provide me with a Cloudflare tunnel to get around not being able to forward ports.

Outages have put this dependance to question, and the same with recent news about the US government obtaining data through subpoenas. It’s a free service that takes care of many of the difficulties when it comes to hosting your service online, but everyone knows that free is not free.

What do you all think about Cloudflare?

  • towerful
    11·
    2 days ago

    And a VPS and any number of tunneling systems for the remote reverse proxy.
    Rathole is my goto. But SSH forwarding, wireguard… There’s plenty, even ones that will entirely manage the reverse proxy on the VPS.

      • towerful
        2·
        17 hours ago

        It doesn’t.
        Have you ever been ddos’d? I haven’t.
        I imagine if it happens, I’ll just switch off the VM.
        If it’s actually a problem, then I’d see what the VM hosting company recommends. Ultimately they will have something in place so that if my VM gets targeted they can isolate it.
        My sites get denied service. Oh well.

        I’ve never had anything get so popular that I actually need the tooling that cloudflare offers. I’ve never had anything targeted in a way that cloudflare would protect against.

        If that is actually a vector in your security and reliability analysis, then yeh. It’s probably the right tool for it.
        And there are other competitors than just cloudflare if you actually need the protection, which should each be considered.

          • towerful
            1·
            14 hours ago

            Great, use cloudflare or any number of other ddos mitigation services. Or get a larger peering connection and eat the ddos.

            Edit:
            And to be clear, my context for the suggestion was this part in OPs question:

            I use it to provide me with a Cloudflare tunnel to get around not being able to forward ports.