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> For most applications 1 location is probably good enough. If your usecase doesn't require redundancy or high-availability, why would you be using something l
by locknitpicker 10mo ago
> For most applications 1 location is probably good enough.
If your usecase doesn't require redundancy or high-availability, why would you be using something like Cloudflare to start with?
- robertcope 10mo agoSecurity. I host personal sites on Linodes and other external servers. There are no inbound ports open to the world. Everything is accessed via Cloudflare Tunnels and locked down via their Zero Trust services. I find this useful and good, as I don't really want to have to develop my personal services to the point where I'd consider them hardened for public internet access.
- h33t-l4x0r 10mo agoNot even ssh? What happens if cloudflare goes down?
- c0balt 10mo agoNot oc, but services like Linode often offer "console" access via a virtualized tty for VPS systems. Having a local backup user is a viable backup path then. If you wire up pam enough you can even use MFA for local login.
- nwellinghoff 10mo agoYou could restrict the ssh port by ip as well.
- robertcope 10mo agoThen I log in to Linode or whatever and open a hole up in the firewall. That's easy. But Cloudflare rarely goes down, not really something I worry about.
- RandomDistort 10mo agoWhen you have a simple tool you have written for yourself, that you need to be reliable and accessible but also that you don't use frequently enough that it's worth the bother of running on your own server with all of that setup and ongoing maintenance.
- gpm 10mo agoFree bandwidth. (Also the very good sibling-answer about tunnels).
- NicoJuicy 10mo agoPrice
- Hamuko 10mo agoCloudflare gives me free resources. If they tomorrow reduced my blog to be available on a single region only, I'd shrug and move on with my day.
- max_lt 10mo agoThe DX is great: simple deployment, no containers, no infra to manage. I build a lot of small weekend projects that I don't want to maintain once shipped. OpenWorkers gives you the same model when you need compliance or data residency.
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 10mo agoIt takes a minute to setup for CDN usecase.