• confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Even though I don’t host anything important, I’m still glad I found alternative ways to hosting my own stuff without the use of any of Cloudflare services.

    I’ve noticed over time that the self-hosted communities have been suggesting Cloudflare Tunnels less and less since Trump and his gang took over America. Maybe this latest outage will push more people to not recommend Cloudflare again in the future.

    I still remember when I first got into self-hosting and being mocked pretty hard for questioning the use of such a large centralized service like Cloudflare. I’m glad I persisted and kept learning in my own direction but that still was very demotivating at the time.

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        2 days ago

        True.

        My self-hosting strategy is wildly alternative and not one I speak much about publicly. I’m the only person connecting to my own domain so as long as I continue to practice shutting the fuck up, I can get away with using multiple layers of obscurity rather than fiddling with third party solutions.

        I check my logs daily and the only activity I ever see is my own. Since I am not hosting anything critical or sensitive, I have the opportunity to experiment this way without much risk to myself.

        The way I’m set up, I am not concerned with DDOS attacks because it would fail to get past the Dynamic DNS. If I were hosting a social media platform or something more public, then I would need to take stronger measures to protect myself and that data.

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    The status page is overloaded and just gives http 504 errors. Kind of ironic that a cdn provider gets that type of error.

  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Had to get that account back as piefed.zip, piefed.social and lemmy.zip cannot be accessed.

    Cool to see other people still able to access the Threadiverse

  • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
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    Ahhhh, feels so good to be proven correct.

    Stop using centralised services, especially botnet like ones that protect fascist harassers.