Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.

Centralization is bad for everyone everywhere.

That bring said... I just moved my homeserver to another city... and I plugged in the power, then I plugged in the ethernet, and that was the whole shebang.

Tunnels made it very easy. No port forwarding no dns configuration no firewall fiddling no nothing.

Why do they have to make it so so easy...

Moonrise2473 ,

also, when you have 5g failover on the router and the fiber it's down, it automagically continues to work without admin intervention

art ,
@art@lemmy.world avatar

Their static website hosting is probably the best in the business. We seriously need some competition though.

lemmyvore ,

There are tons of CDNs out there.

Mora ,

Even when you host a HUGE static website (e.g. maps with thousands of image files). You can just throw it on R2 add a few transform rules, point a domain at it, and you are done. Also highlights the usability of Cloudflare compared to other solutions.

send_me_your_mommy_milkers ,
@send_me_your_mommy_milkers@lemmy.world avatar

Are there browser plugins (or other solutions) to see if an site uses cloudflare before visting?

h3ndrik , (edited )

Well, centralization and giving up your freedoms, letting someone else control you, is always kinda easy. Same applies to all the other big tech companies and their platforms. I'd say it applies to other aspects of life, too.

And I'd say it's not far off from the usual setup. If you had a port forward and DynDns like lots of people have, the Dns would automatically update, you'd need to make sure the port forward is activated if you got a new router, but that's pretty much it.

But sure. if it's too inconvenient to put in the 5 minutes of effort it requires to set up port forwarding everytime you move, I also don't see an alternative to tunneling. Or you'd need to pay for a VPS.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I use Cloudflare as my registrar and public DNS. And only for that. Sorry but they don't get to peek at my network traffic.

hitagi ,
@hitagi@ani.social avatar

I also really like the tunnels feature. It makes self hosting at home easy for those under NAT/CGNAT or whatever it was called.

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