Subj : Re: Advice on self-hosting a website?
To   : Arelor
From : dflorey
Date : Mon Apr 07 2025 09:36 pm

 Ar> Cloudflare is a Google-level threat to Internet privacy. I wish
 Ar> everybody stopped promoting it.

What parts of CloudFlare don't you like? I'm genuinely curious...
I host numerous websites. Each domain has its own free DNS CloudFlare
account. One of them CloudFlare one day just decided should no longer exist
anymore, so I now host the DNS for that site using my own self hosted trio of
DNS servers.

I did some reading and seems they tend to do this to paying customers with a
lot of stuff riding on CF services. They just decide one day that you need to
step up to their enterprise plan at 20X the price, annually up front now or
they suspend your account!

This happened to a client of mine - they were given 12 hours to pay up on the
spot an amount of over $120K USD (previously, about $3K USD) - so there I am
- migrating their domain, DNS, proxy, everything! They actually stopped the
domain transfer so we had to perform a hostile takeover!

Otherwise, I DO love their free DNS plan offering which 99.99% of our client
base uses.

|14Dave!
|05(|13dflorey|05)
|13Retro16 BBS |05--> |14bbs.retro16.com  |05(|13WIP|05)
|07No one expects the Spanish inquisition!

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 * Origin: Retro16 BBS (21:1/226)

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