Both Lemmy.world and my server rely upon Cloudflare for SSL, DDOS protection, CDN services, etc. I use it to provide me with a Cloudflare tunnel to get around not being able to forward ports.
Outages have put this dependance to question, and the same with recent news about the US government obtaining data through subpoenas. It’s a free service that takes care of many of the difficulties when it comes to hosting your service online, but everyone knows that free is not free.
What do you all think about Cloudflare?
Fair enough, one other guy said it should be the thin block above the one pointed to. Makes sense, and it can still be yanked from under you.
Suddenly yanking it out might cause a lot of stuff to collapse, but at least some parts would still be able to operate without it in the long term. Maybe one of the blocks in the upper two stacks?