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Centralization is bad for everyone everywhere.

That bring said... I just moved my homeserver to another city... and I plugged in the power, then I plugged in the ethernet, and that was the whole shebang.

Tunnels made it very easy. No port forwarding no dns configuration no firewall fiddling no nothing.

Why do they have to make it so so easy...

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[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 77 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

Why does Cloudflare get a pass on the "if it's free, you're the product" mantra of the self-hosting community? Honest question. They seem to provide a lot for free, so...

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 48 points 5 months ago (7 children)

It's usually free tiers of paid products

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago (5 children)

That makes sense, except Google kinda does the same thing. Everything they have is technically just a "free tier" of the Google One subscription, right? I guess I'm saying that "free tier of paid product" doesn't automatically qualify a company as trustworthy for me. Is there something else that sets Cloudflare apart?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

Quality of their products maybe? Cloudflare feels like they put a lot of effort into their product, Google not so much with how buggy everything is and how often they just abandon products they offer.

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