Kevin Karhan Apr 29, 2024

@lucasmz @kasperd @beasts @BNetzA There are so many reasons why I'll never ever use #ClownFlare and why noone else should even consider them because they are just irredeemably bad.

I do use #ClouDNS for #domains and #DNS and then fan out stuff as need be.

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Show threadkasperdApr 29, 2024

When I pick providers my primary criteria are the technical merits of the product. To me it feels like a very strange argument that you won't use a provider because you dislike one of their other customers.

Based on technical reasons I have not yet found a reason to use Cloudflare. For DNS hosting I haven't carefully investigated whether Cloudflare would be an option for me.

My choice for DNS hosting is self managed VMs with redundancy across four different hosting providers. And one of the providers I decided on is Hetzner. Since I configured that setup 9 years ago the DNS zone has so far had 100% availability.

I have zone files in a Mercurial repository which gets pushed to each DNS server. I would not be opposed to the idea of switching one of those replicas to be hosted on Cloudflare if it would be possible to do so without throwing away the working setup I have for the other replicas. I am just not particular confident Cloudflare would support that, and before going with the self managed setup I have seen things go very wrong when doing redundancy across multiple providers.

Show threadKevin Karhan 

@kasperd TBH, the problem is not #CloudFlare hosting but the way they basically refuse to act upon legitimate complaints and how they enable beyond-#StochasticTerrorism by the #Hategrooming forum that is #KiwiFarms!

  • Mind you that KiwiFarms was fired by #Gandi.net for hosting #CSAM and is one of the few sites that got #delisted by @internetarchive for being a meritless shithole that is in fact indefensible.

I mean, you do you but I'd not trust #ClownFlare nor #Hetzner and would rather stick with a provider (i.e. #ClouDNS, #netcup, #contabo, #myLoc) that basically says 'Everything legal as per our juristiction is fine.' than put myself on the whim of a "#FreezePeach" hoster that'll fire me once bigger customers threaten to quit hosting with them (see #DropKiwifarms & #DropCloudflare) or just yeet me because some employee dislikes my site (aka getting #Hetznered)...

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