So, with the Cloudflare outage, I have found my self hosted services are not accessible outside of the home. I use a SWAG reverse proxy from linuxserver.io and bought my domain through cloudflare. I’m fairly new at this stuff, so is this a secure way of doing things? Does cloudflare have access to my data? I’m fairly new at this, so I apologize if this is a silly question. Is there some way to self host what cloudflare does?
Doubt cloudflare has access to your date. more like the time old joke of it was DNS.
Most likely because you purchased your domain through Cloudflare they are also your authoritative name servers for your domain. When you try to access home.your.domain if the local DNS server doesn’t already know the IP to send that traffic to it will ask CF because they are the name servers. As they are having issues they didn’t respond.
I don’t know if CF allows you do use other name servers with domains purchased by them.
Self-hosting an authoritative dns server is not a good idea for several reasons.
Cloudflare doesn’t have access to data hosted in your server unless you’re using their reverse proxy tunnel.
A momentary (if severe) blip in their availability isn’t a good reason to change providers.
That’s the conclusion I’m coming to. Saw a lot of posts from self hosters happy they aren’t affected by this. Figured there was some reason NOT to use Cloudflare (security, etc.). But it kind of just seems like a personal preference. Cloudflare has certainly had better uptime than all my services thus far 🙂
Cloudflare is a business service primarily and the people who should be worried about its monopoly are the businesses, not so much a handful of people running home servers.
not so much a handful of people running home servers
Oh you’ll smoke a turd in hell for your insolence. lol
I’m pretty sure Cloudflare requires you to use their nameservers if you purchase a domain through them. So you would need to transfer your domain to another registrar first. I could be wrong though. I’m not an expert on this stuff and prefer to just use a dynamic DNS service instead of paying for a domain.
Yes, they do require you to use their nameservers unless you have a business account.
I’m fairly new at this, so I apologize if this is a silly question
Those don’t exist, afaic.
Caveat: I am unsure if Cloudflare will let you use other nameservers or if you are required to use theirs. I do know that if you use their Tunnel/ZeroTrust, you have to use their nameservers, but you can buy a domain from anywhere.
Yes, you can self host your own DNS. Bind, PowerDNS, Pi-Hole + unbound, Technitium has emerged as a new favorite, so there are options. I think you can selfhost AdGuard DNS tho the blocking service is a paid tier.
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1984.hosting has a great free tier, and I’ve never had an issue in 7+ years
