Comment on Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet

• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Really? For DDOS and privacy protection?

  I know Cloudflare is indeed a growing issue. But I think it’s growing because it’s really difficult to self host/provide some of their services.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most providers like hetzner and contabo already provide ddos protection. No everyone needs ddos protection anyway and the privacy issue its not certain with cloudflare either normal would I argue with the costs are worth it.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which ones? What for?

    Really the only service of such extreme convenience I can’t help but use it is cloudflare tunnels and their cheap asf domain registrars.

    Not sure what else you need.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      porkbun is an alternative to the cheap registrar.

      But I thought Cloudflare had great DDOS protection. And the comment I replied to says to just do it yourself.

      Why did you skip over that?

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• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They say it’s not hard when you know how. I don’t know how and even when I think I do it’s usually still difficult :)

  Currently using no-ip so friends can use a web address for game sever or get some files, instead of my every changing IP, for free.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No-ip’s DDNS is relatively wonderful.

    Scammy in a sort of eastern european sleazy used car dealership way, I had to talk to their support once about a double charge and it felt like Roman from GTA IV was on the other side.

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• sirboozebum@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do both.

  I have Cloudflare pointing to my reverse proxy.

  Total pain to set up and had to hunt through a bunch of forums to get it to work.

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