You might want to be more specific, cloud flare has a lot of different products, and you’re getting answers with differing assumptions.
For the self hosted focus, I use tail scale already, and when (not if) that company gets shitty, I will switch to head scale, or a competitor, or straight wire guard (plus firewall etc).
But I also run web sites on cf, and there’s no real alternative, definitely not for free. I don’t have hundreds of millions to spend on the CDN part, for starters.
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
I have a lot more faith in tailscale holding the fort against enshitification. They at least seem to have planned their business plan around free tier for advertising, and minimising the cost of the free tier traffic. Can’t predict the future of course, but from a business model POV, they appear to be well setup.
Headscales main issue is that they rely on the tailscale app, and if the app got paywalled or locked to tailscale, that would kill headscale overnight.
I am very happy with headscale so far though, bit fiddly, but once setup it works very well.