Post #3538815

2026-07-02 12:20 UTC

That’s a gatekeeper-ass take. It isnt sad in any way shape or form. What an elitist proclamation. If you build your own infra internally and want a billion dollar industry to be your point of entry because you’re not confident in hardening a vps or don’t wanna pay for that on top of everything else (yet), so the fuck what? REEEE YOU MUST OWN ALL OF YOUR INFRA 🙄 Get bent. If cloudflare goes down again (for another whole handful of minutes, the horror!!) they are clearly ramping to make the jump to a VPS when the finances and/or cybersecurity chops feel ready and the needs arise. “Sad”? Please. Get off your high horse. You make the rest of self hosters look bad.

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@non_burglar@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 13:55

I mean, there’s a difference between not gatekeeping when talking about cloudflare and completely waving Cloudflare’s banner on your front lawn. Cloudflare has full access to your traffic, and privacy is a very strong motivator for a good chunk of self-hosters. You might also be interested in Cloudflare’s unending string of bad actor captcha redirects that Cloudflare inexplicably won’t resolve, for all their 800lb gorilla strength in warding off DOS volumetric attacks. Another thing you would think Cloudflare has resolved: captcha hell. So yeah, I wouldn’t have phrased it the way original comment was phrased, but holy cow, bro… Cloudflare is far from perfect and the people that will have existential problems with Cloudflare are very likely to be self-hosters.

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