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This hasn't been my experience. My origin uses only HTTPS to serve image content, which I'm caching via a subdomain handled by Cloudflare.
It's true that Cloudflare uses its own SSL certificate, but you may have one as well. I use a free Let's Encrypt cert for my origin.
Infomaniak for all of emails value for money and quality service + security.
That's an interesting company I hadn't heard of.
Overshadowed by Proton?
Using their email service. Fantastic. But for my clients, Im @jar fan!
Proton honestly seems less trustworthy + they do different things. Infomaniak is more of a Google replacement, where you can have email, video chat, storage, and a cloud platform hosted in Switzerland. Proton is one of those "muh privacy" providers (honeypots) that just does mail and storage. The ability to move basically 1:1 from Google and the like make Infomaniak a little better for business users within Europe.
Infomaniak's entry-level domain name mail hosting seems reasonably priced.
We use Cloudflare’s own SSL certificates which we also need to install on our servers. I think we paid some money to get custom/advanced certificates back in the day IIRC. Then we set the SSL mode to Full (Strict). This way all the connections are secure both ways. If the server doesn’t have the certificate files, the website won’t even load.
We even use Cloudflare as our registrar btw. We’ve gradually moved all our domains from their registrars to Cloudflare Registrar in the last few years.
I think Proton is using end to end encryption which is enabled in infomaniak by default. But both are in Swiss to under very strict data governance.
Not enabled *
HostVDS provides hourly billed services that are very suitable for my needs (quick testing)
I am new to this community. Should I keep asking about Cloudflare here or create a new thread?
The good news is that I am making progress! With some tweaking, I now have a working static web site with full (strict) encryption through Cloudflare.
In order to make good use of Cloudflare cache, what difference does it make if the relevant A record is proxied or not?
Here's why I'm asking. In order to set full (strict) encryption, I first had to create a Let's Encrypt certificate at my host. But the host wouldn't do that until I disabled the proxy function at Cloudflare. Specifically, I disabled the proxy for the A record that points to the web host. When I didn't do that, the host read more than one A record and thus refused to install the certificate. Disabling proxy apparently condensed the number of A records to one and made everything work.
Is there some risk that if I enable proxy then my host will fail to renew the certificate in February?
Just keep SSL on Strict on Cloudflare and everything will be good.
@Turbo_Pascal If you proxy with Cloudflare, this would work. Also, if you have additional questions, it would be better to start a new thread.
https://i.imgur.com/Jz77oWU.png
i use instawp.com for testing my own developed plugin in different settings and server. it's awesome for testing purposes.
You can generate Server SSL from Cloudflare, then install it on your host. Then you do not need to worry about SSL anymore. It was 15 years validity!!.
https://improvmx.com
https://bump.email
https://skiff.com
https://www.netlify.com/
https://render.com/
https://surge.sh/
https://www.photopea.com/
https://codeium.com/
https://jellyfin.org/
https://sendy.co/
https://www.ilovepdf.com/
https://www.dashlane.com
https://supabase.com/
https://www.paced.email/
Nice list!
Yahoo Group (RIP) digest with more control
BuyVM's block storage works nicely and I haven't found better pricing
https://app.corelvector.com for quick, simple and free web based vector editing
DuckDuckgo email protection & addy.io seems to be providing same service. While @duck.com is free.
Similar, not same. Can't use custom domain with ddg. With addy and simplelogin can use custom domain.
Do we need to pay for paused/shutdown instances with hostvds? I am looking for Cloud vps 10 to 30 numbers on need basic [for my training program, allocated to my students] some for few hours a day, for a week or month. Do they allow shutdown and reboot the instances while shutdowned instances are not charged for CPU/RAM, but only charged for volume/storage? Thank you for recommendation, I will check with them too.
Thanks for bringing up Adguard name, I was not aware until this point. Can it block add on all browsers?, many sites don't render content if I use Adblocker for chrome or firefox, with Adguard home, can we find better remedy? I see they have good offer for lifetime about Indian rupee 2000 for upto 9 devices [family plan], but yet to understand pros and cons..
Use https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock - it's great and free.
They charge for paused/shutdown instances too (though negligible).
VPN Unlimited lifetime package
Filen.io (aff! +10GB extra) 200 GB storage lifetime
Simplelogin being my newest one. Tried to selfhost it but dang various error that i don't have energy nor time to troubleshoot.