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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.
Oh you'll smoke a turd in hell for your insolence. lol
Many would be self-hosting behind a VPN so are less affected by public DNS issues.