I have a small blog with a few hundred visitors per month (not including the AI scrapers), and I use Cloudflare because it lets me run everything on a box in my

I have a small blog with a few hundred visitors per month (not including the AI scrapers), and I use Cloudflare because it lets me run everything on a box in my home office with Cloudflare tunnel in the way and I don't have to worry about a static IP or anything. The best part about Cloudflare is how unintrusive it is. It's properly a layer over everything that you have. I run my stuff as quadlets on Linux, and `cloudflared` just forwards requests to a specific port. It's a reverse proxy. If I wanted to move off Cloudflare, I'd need to run Nginx (or Traefik/Caddy which I'm less familiar with) + certbot and switch DNS. I like this layering approach, and when I decided to move from a cheap VPS to my own homeserver, I found it very easy to do so by just swapping a few things. I do have Google Fiber who don't mind when you host stuff so that's nice. Of all the cloud services that are a problem, I'd say Cloudflare is particularly well-designed as a non-lock-in service and is very generous with the terms. So I am quite happy putting Cloudflare in between. After all, if I'm only receiving a few hundred visits a month, it's not that important if Cloudflare is down. It's not like I'm providing an essential service except to my wife, who relies on some of the apps I've made for her Custom GPTs[1] and she is quite the forgiving user. 0: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/One_Quick_Way_To_Host_A_WebApp https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/One_Quick_Way_To_Host_A_WebA... a description of how I host, but mostly structured as a note to myself 1: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-10-17/Custom_GPTs https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-10-17/Custom_GPTs