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Comment on People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative?

CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yup, happy. A 3 hour outage once in a blue moon really isnt a big deal. Especially when I pay $0.

I host a website for my partners business, and as I pointed out to them, while their website is down right now, so is everyone else’s, so not really losing customers.

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kiol@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So, are you using a domain you’ve registered for the site with cloudflare?

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- irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I bought a domain from NamesCheap for less than $5 USD, and used the Cloudflare issued nameservers. Cloudflare does not require you to purchase a domain through them, but they do require you to use their nameservers for obvious reasons.
  
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- CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes. I bought the domain through them, to keep it all nice and simple.
  
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  - HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    you bought one? Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?
    
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    CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There are no domains that are infinite time ownership (AFAIK, please correct me if I’m wrong), but its pretty close to ownership. I have the rights to the domain for 10 years, and I get first dibs on renewal after that. So its sorta renting/sorta owning?
    
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    irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?
    
    It’s like paying off and owning a house. Sure, you own it, but quit paying state taxes (assuming US, or Council Tax and Business Rates for UK etc) for a very long time and find out what happens. LOL
    
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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I wasn’t really inconvenienced by the outage. I got up to check a couple things that morning, saw apps were not responding, checked Cloudflare’s status page and noticed things were a bit wonky. So we’ll drop back to our trick back and rock on for the time being. At the very least, we’ll use the tried and true 192.168.1.110:7575…old school before everything is as nice as it is now.

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- CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I have all my domains on my pihole pointed to the local address, so I only noticed when my uptime monitoring of the external sites started pinging me. But for me, the outage was at 10pm, so it really didn’t matter either way.
  
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