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I'm starting to see people mention this on Twitter, so just as a reminder: please blog about your migration off Cloudflare if you do the blogging thing.

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@sforslev

Aug 27

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@workingjubilee

Options just off the top of my head, Google and Incapsula.

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It basically depends on what part of Cloudflare's services you're using. Fastly and Akamai are of course the big head to head rivals. The Asahi Linux project uses

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There are other caching reverse proxy services providing a pull-based CDN matching Cloudflare's most used service. Push-based CDNs are a different approach and not everything can be migrated to them. You can simply drop Cloudflare's main service in front of any web service.

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They also provide load balancing / region steering without having to use their reverse proxy service. There are lots of managed DNS services with GeoDNS but rage4.com is a nice alternative because it's unmetered. Cloudflare's load balancing is expensive as hell.

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Years ago, we used to use Cloudflare as a caching reverse proxy for updates before they reduced file size limit to 500M and disallowed using regular unmetered reverse proxy for anything but web sites. We moved to self-hosted DNS with GeoDNS and unmetered bandwidth VPS instances.

3:12 AM · Aug 28, 2022Twitter Web App

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OVH VPS instances in US/EU with 2Gbit unmetered/uncapped bandwidth are 34 USD / month each. There are other options than CDN services. Hetzner has 1Gbit unmetered/uncapped for dedicated servers but OVH truly stands behind the uncapped part and has decent free DDoS mitigation.

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I know people who had the experience of Hetzner null routing their IP addresses due to volumetric DDoS attacks. OVH has a good enough network to absorb most of those attacks. They haven't extended their custom ASIC/FPGA-based DDoS firewall to IPv6 yet though. Still IPv4 only.