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Itβs important to chose a instance with a reputable host.
Donβt go join your neighbors basement troll server.
Pick something thatβs established, then they will typically not shut down.
Single-user basement troll servers are the way forward in the fediverse.
Use ZeroTier or Tailscale tunneling if you're hosting from your home network (fuck Cloudflare, all my homies hate Cloudflare). You can also rent a cloud server, put a VPN on it and tunnel all of the traffic to your homeserver without exposing the homeserver itself to the internet. Or just put the instance on the cloud server itself.
I might be out of the loop, why?
Mostly centralization and monopoly concerns, considering that 80% of websites use Cloudflare. The data security isn't great (Cloudflare can obviously access all traffic unencrypted) but the tunnels are free. I won't yell at people for using Cloudflare, especially for the DDOS protection which is difficult for a smaller company to provide, but it's always treated like everyone has to use it or else their website will explode, which gets annoying.
Also checking in
Very complicated
Noone said it's gonna be easy. Besides, if you don't understand that stuff you really shouldn't be running your server anyways
I absolutely agree. I want someone who understands this to do it and we can support it financially.
Like others I'm wondering why not cloudflare?
What's a good alternative? I have a few domains through Cloudflare that I have no issue transferring elsewhere.
I have all of my domains under my name with WHOIS privacy enabled and I've never gotten a spam call or email from my domains. Your registrar won't give out your personal information unless they have to comply, like a legal warrant. But if you're worried about your particulars getting leaked somehow, you can use a VOIP number and PO Box address as your contact information, as long as you use your real name so your domains can't be taken from you during a dispute. Registrars like Njalla and Epik also give you the option to list them as the domain contact so you don't have to leave your personal information at all, and they'll forward any messages to your account.