Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoI see SO much cloudflare stuff on here, I have to believe they are ads/astroturfing. I can’t understand why so many self-hosting people would tie their services to them. In my mind it completely defeats the point to self hosting in the first place.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I recommend what I use. I have no interest in shilling for any company, opensource or closed. I can understand not liking a company. That’s fine. The animosity is a bit overboard imho, but with 8.4 billion people on this planet, opinions range widely. It works for what I use it for, and when it no longer does, I’ll move on to something else.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
shilling or not for something you use is one thing, I made my comment because this post has a guerilla marketing smell to it.
it certainly educated me on their product and even tempted me to use it because of the real-life applications they provided. this is likely the “smell” that makes me distrust it.
top it off, I hate cloudflare because of all the engineers that use it. the unsurmountable percentage of the internet that is entirely dependent on cloudflare staying up is frustratingly apparent (especially recently).
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If we were all board execs, maybe you might have a point…I guess. However, we are selfhosters, homelab’ers. As such, no one here will probably be pumping millions of dollars into the Cloudflare machine or attempting to persuade others to do so as well. As I mentioned in another comment, I can only think of around 10 major outages going back 5 years or so. Sure there have been hiccups, glitches, etc. Welcome to the internet. Shit breaks…all of it from time to time.