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?

  • luciferofastora@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    I think CloudFlare is the direct result of the enshitififcation of development work.

    I think it’s also a symptom of assholes fucking it up for everyone. You wouldn’t need the DoS-protections or security tools if there were no attackers.

    Don’t know a solution for that, unfortunately. I think you have a point about inadequate development work, but I’m not sure it’s the whole puzzle.