candyman337@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 months agoCloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?message-squaremessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1362arrow-down17
arrow-up1355arrow-down1message-squareCloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?candyman337@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squarebig_slap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoit’s very concerning, but what are the alternatives?
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoWell, lemmy. That worked fine.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoMultiple instances gives redundancy
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoYou need to create your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers.
minus-squareZwrt@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoSomeone please give a serious answer please. My selfhosting gimmick is “no reliance on things outside my control”
minus-squaredarklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoWhile some of the things that Cloudflare do are only possible through their massive scale, they also do a lot of things that are perfectly fine to do successfully also on a smaller scale. For one example of one such thing, see: https://dev.to/carrie_luo1/how-i-replaced-cloudflare-waf-with-an-open-source-self-hosted-alternative-2k1h
minus-squarebig_slap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI have to look into something like this, thanks for the resource
it’s very concerning, but what are the alternatives?
Fastly?
Well, lemmy. That worked fine.
my lemmy was down
Multiple instances gives redundancy
You need to create your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers.
Someone please give a serious answer please.
My selfhosting gimmick is “no reliance on things outside my control”
While some of the things that Cloudflare do are only possible through their massive scale, they also do a lot of things that are perfectly fine to do successfully also on a smaller scale.
For one example of one such thing, see:
https://dev.to/carrie_luo1/how-i-replaced-cloudflare-waf-with-an-open-source-self-hosted-alternative-2k1h
I have to look into something like this, thanks for the resource