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-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
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