CrimeFlarE

Why you should say "No" to Cloudflare

Self-hosting

Self-hosting often works great, but it requires some effort to setup. It is more aimed at technical people.

We might create a guide for some self-hosting basics which don't require Cloudflare. IPFS may be worth consideration if performance is the main concern.

Alternatives

Alternative	Drawback	Price	Link
Codeberg pages	no custom domain support; tor hostility	Free	https://pages.codeberg.org/
eQualitie	not gratis	gratis during COVID19	https://equalit.ie/
Github pages	uses Microsoft servers	Free	https://pages.github.com/ (WARNING: Tor/VPN users will get their account blocked automatically by Github)
PerimeterX	not gratis	?	-
sucuri	not gratis; tor hostility at ~3.483%	$200+	https://sucuri.net/
Surge.sh	uses custom servers	Free	https://surge.sh/

Not researched yet

CDNJS

CDNJS is sponsored by Cloudflare. It might use it in the background.

Why X is not included

X	Reason
Gitlab pages	GitLab is now Cloudflared
Imperva	Uses Cloudflare.
jsDelivr	Uses Cloudflare, see their network page
Netlify	Uses Amazon AWS which is also a content delivery network. It would be hypocritical to include it.
Siteground	Tor-hostile people.

History

Sucuri and eQualitie have a history of CloudFlare patronage, but no longer.

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