Genuine question, so please don’t be mean to whoever responds. Better to learn than to judge.
Curious if people who are on Cloudflare are considering any selfhosted alternatives? If not, interested to hear what is a deal breaker in regards to using a service besides Cloudflare. I do hear a lot of praise for Cloudflare when facing DDOS, and always happy to learn more!
It depends. I have a vlan for work stuff thats connected to my office (site-to-site), and for some client and lab testing I have another VLAN that has a CF tunnel. For what I use it for (occasional tests and a demo of a concept for a client), its perfectly fine.
For my personal stuff, I don’t need it/don’t want to rely on it.
Pangolin on a VPS would be the most self-hosted alternative, but you’re not really getting all the CF features there. Anubis is an example of a tool to protect from AI scraping, gatekeeper is an open source DDoS protection solution but meant for way more scale, DDoS Deflate is a shell script to help with the impact with dynamically blocking addresses, or HAProxy as a load balancer can be used as well.
I think for most folks though, getting DDoS’d would just mean stopping the public exposure for a while.
My issue with CF has nothing to do with its services, but about it being such a critical system to so many makes it a problem (much like people hosting too many things in AWS or Azure). As a service, CF works just fine.
Ah ha, I’ve noticed Anubis in the wild. Thank you for the project mentions!