> From time to time, I consider shielding my website with Cloudflare's services. I resist the temptation, because I strongly suspect that, despite Cloudflare's

> From time to time, I consider shielding my website with Cloudflare's services. I resist the temptation, because I strongly suspect that, despite Cloudflare's current good intentions, in the long-run, this is playing into the hands of the corporate-controlled web. Relying on commercial web services limits the freedom we have as personal website owners. Once they have us relying on them, we are forced to play by their rules, and at that point the battle is over. We may not have realized it yet, but we have been captured. Unless we manage to free ourselves, in a short time, we will be working for the enemy. Soon, we will have their advertisements on our websites. Soon, we will be rewriting our articles and modifying our websites to attract more traffic from their search engines. Soon, we will be throwing out our best content, because it is too controversial for their teams of often ethically-challenged marketers. Soon, we will no longer be knights. We will be their lowly serfs clad in filthy rages begging for scraps. They will own us. OP conflates two different issues: the difficulty of running infrastructure that you own, and the difficulty of running content that you own. They are not the same! Concerns about ownership of content because you no longer own the infrastructure are, I think, irrational. I can take my compiled heap of HTML, CSS, and JS to Cloudflare, and if they try to "make me a serf", I can move it to CloudFront, or Netlify, or GitHub Pages (which, to the point, even works in Iran from what I understand, because GitHub went through the pains of getting approved by export control), or any number of similar services. Concerns about ownership of infrastructure are valid, but that war is largely lost. I still can't get IPv6 at home, and even if I could, leaving it open to ::/0 is playing with fire. Somewhat literally, depending on whether your hardware's automatic temperature shutoffs are working or not, something that is increasingly unlikely in an age of cheap connected kitchen appliances with heating elements. Denial of Service is real, and the fact of the matter is, even if IPv6 were to be offered to every household on the planet, virtually no Mom-and-Pop consumers want to screw around with network firewalls to get anything working. Yes, own your content. Write what you want. Stop running long-commoditized hardware at home.