Centralization is bad for everyone everywhere.

That bring said… I just moved my homeserver to another city… and I plugged in the power, then I plugged in the ethernet, and that was the whole shebang.

Tunnels made it very easy. No port forwarding no dns configuration no firewall fiddling no nothing.

Why do they have to make it so so easy…

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    It’s not the only free DNS service.

    It’s only a good registrar if you don’t care about privacy and you’re ok with their selection of TLDs (selected only from registries without privacy).

    The free accounts do not benefit from DDoS protection. Re-read their terms of service, they’re vague on purpose. If you were ever DDoS’ed (I don’t know who would bother btw but that’s another discussion) they’d just drop you.

    You can establish the tunneling thing on your own with any VPS.

    The problem with cloudflare is that we’re missing three other cloudflares to move to if they decide to pull evil shit.

    You can and should diversify your services and spread them to different providers that are easy to switch. I’ve been with “all in one” providers before, they inevitably end up leveraging their convenience into all sorts of crap. But until you get burned a couple of times they look really good.

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      It’s not the only free DNS service.

      can i get some alternatives. currently basically using cf pretty much just for dns, but would really like to switch

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          that looks great, thanks o/

          EDIT: looks like you can only manage 1 domain before having to contact their support

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            As it is run by volunteers, they probably want to keep corporate (or domain hoarders) off their platform unless they pay.

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              makes sense, they support plenty of donation options, if that’s suggested/a requirement to let me transfer in more than 1 :)

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            Contact support and tell them how many you need and they’ll try to accommodate you. There were a lot of people abusing the service and hosting hundreds of domains so now they’re making everybody request them explicitly unfortunately. They’ve also had to suspend their .dedyn.io DDNS service indefinitely because of the abuse.

            That’s why we can’t have nice things.

            Please read up on DNSSEC because you will be required to turn it on for every domain you host with them.

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      It’s only a good registrar if you don’t care about privacy and you’re ok with their selection of TLDs (selected only from registries without privacy).

      I wish they supported my country’s two CCTLDs but other than that I’m very happy. I would never buy any of the crazy vanity TLDs anyways.

      I mostly own .com domains and two CCTLDs domains.