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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 months ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Many websites are down, so much for decentralised internet.

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

as a general noob to self-hosting, I'm curious about this!

do you run your stuff through a cloudflare tunnel, or have any authentication service that lives outside of your network? something has got to be causing your connections to go out and then back for a cloudflare outage to impact on your own LAN, right?

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I use them as a DDNS, and a first line of defence.

    It seems very wasteful, doesn't it?
    The truth is that I often need to access these from a device that doesn't have local access to the server, such as a company laptop, or a phone on mobile network.
    This is also given for anyone outside of my house.
    As such, I often don't bother setting up local access, except for specific services that are critical or use a lot of bandwidth that can go locally.

    Not to mention password and bookmark management, which is a little part, but it can get out of hand (I have about 50 services/front-ends).

    TLDR: Your can use cloudflare or alternatives with fallback on local for most services, if you set it up that way

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    got it! I don't have that many hosted services, but for my limited external clients that need to connect, I get by with what tailscale has to offer at least for now!

    thanks for the breakdown!

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