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@programming.dev
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      8 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.