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Cloudflare alternative

Does anyone know a Cloudflare alternative ?

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  • stxshstxsh Member
    edited December 2024

    for what? cdn? bunny. dns? cloudns

  • Cloudflare is so many things bundled together, which feature are you talking about exactly

  • Prophaze.com
    Bunny.net (more like a CDN)
    Fastly.com
    Skip2.net
    Stackpath.com

  • If you mean a free CDN alternative similar to cloudflare, there's unfortunately none afaik.

  • If you want cdn - https://cloudinary.com/
    There are many other alternatives beside Cloudflare but Cloudflare is just perfect as all in one solution 😅

  • Depends what exactly you want to replace and for what reason but some are

    bunny.net for affordable cdn, use volume network for cheapest price.
    also bunny.net for workers / edge scripting, deno deploy is another good candidate and has KV store.
    any S3-compatible provider for R2 alternative, many to choose from.
    tailscale for zero trust
    cloudns or bunny again for dns

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  • LeviLevi Member
    edited December 2024

    There is no cloudflare alternative, which could offer same functionality and be free.

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  • @jure12 said:
    Does anyone know a Cloudflare alternative ?

    Spend $5000 on servers this Christmas. Then get busy.

  • DylhostDylhost Member
    edited December 2024

    What feature are you after?

    Cloudflare is many things... CDN, DNS, ZeroTrust, email server, etc...

    Also, what's wrong with Cloudflare itself?

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  • @stxsh said:
    for what? cdn? bunny. dns? cloudns

    Bunny for dns too

  • +1 bunnycdn

  • I use ns1 for DNS

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  • imo there's no such alternative for zerotrust, it's so special and nice

  • cloudblastcloudblast Member, Patron Provider

    @JerryHou said: Stackpath.com

    Stackpath is dead since a while now.

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    @z4r said:
    Cloudflare is so many things bundled together, which feature are you talking about exactly

    We are using these Cloudflare features:

    • recursive DNS resolver
    • VPN service for iOS and Android
    • domain registrar
    • authoritative name server
    • CDN with outbound connection to origin server (via AAAA records)
    • CDN with inbound connection from origin server (via cloudflared)
    • Workers, server side script at the edge

    The top five are easily replaceable.
    The bottom two are not so replaceable.

    We are particularly interested to know what other CDN providers support inbound connections, where the origin server runs a daemon to connect to the platform, but otherwise has no open ports on the firewall.

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  • DylhostDylhost Member
    edited December 2024

    @yoursunny said:

    @z4r said:
    Cloudflare is so many things bundled together, which feature are you talking about exactly

    We are using these Cloudflare features:

    • recursive DNS resolver
    • VPN service for iOS and Android
    • domain registrar
    • authoritative name server
    • CDN with outbound connection to origin server (via AAAA records)
    • CDN with inbound connection from origin server (via cloudflared)
    • Workers, server side script at the edge

    The top five are easily replaceable.
    The bottom two are not so replaceable.

    We are particularly interested to know what other CDN providers support inbound connections, where the origin server runs a daemon to connect to the platform, but otherwise has no open ports on the firewall.

    I don't think you'll find another provider that provides a free CDN for their reverse proxy.

    NordVPN provides Meshnet for free, but there's no CDN and it's very slow. Are you on a free plan? If so, the CDN likely isn't doing _that _ much

    Not aware of any other providers who provide a free reliable reverse proxy

    Curious as to why the move btw? I've had no issues with Cloudflare thus far

    Server side script it depends what you're running, many paid services available. They also have reverse proxies (Azure w/ Application Gateway for example, they have edge server side scripting available)

    GCloud has static sites very cheaply if that fits your needs, very hard to recommend anything without knowing use case. It runs code at the edge and serves data based on results. Can pull from databases, etc etc.

    Alternatively you could go full managed cloud but it depends on your use case. AWS, Azure or GCloud all have amazing (paid) services for this.

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    @Dylhost said:
    Not aware of any other providers who provide a free reliable reverse proxy

    Curious as to why the move btw? I've had no issues with Cloudflare thus far

    Gotta prepare for Cloudflare deadpool someday.
    We ain't @Otus9051 so it doesn't have to be free; paying by traffic is OK.
    Just wanna know which CDN providers support inbound connections, where the origin server runs a daemon to connect to the platform but otherwise has no open ports on the firewall.

  • Bunny.net covers everything important and it's more responsive than cloudflare (for me, for Europe)

    If your income is not negative, you should be able to afford it

    Cloudflare.net however covers everything + globally, there is no all-in-one replacement to Cloudflare, not in 2024

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @Dylhost said:
    Curious as to why the move btw? I've had no issues with Cloudflare thus far

    Because "fuck monopolies!" as well as because "what you'll do if Cloudf&%#! ever failed?"

  • hello @yoursunny I have same question, but I want to use as ipv6 to ipv4 proxy like cloudflare do. if any one know please tell.

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate
    edited December 2024

    @lowendtalkxdax said:
    Bunny.net covers everything important and it's more responsive than cloudflare (for me, for Europe)

    Bunny doesn't support IPv6-only origin server 👎 so it's a hard no.

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  • alexhostalexhost Member, Patron Provider

    Hi,

    If you are interested in Free DNS, you can use our DNS for such things.
    We allow freedom of speech, privacy and many more!

    Take a look in our Free DNS service:
    https://alexhost.com/dns/

    Best Regards,
    Alexhost

  • Changed from CF Free to bunny.net, increased speed for my website + don´t need to rely on amuricans and no cookies.

  • I asked more like a Proxy, to hide the real IP address of the server.

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  • @yoursunny said:

    @Dylhost said:
    Not aware of any other providers who provide a free reliable reverse proxy

    Curious as to why the move btw? I've had no issues with Cloudflare thus far

    Gotta prepare for Cloudflare deadpool someday.
    We ain't @Otus9051 so it doesn't have to be free; paying by traffic is OK.
    Just wanna know which CDN providers support inbound connections, where the origin server runs a daemon to connect to the platform but otherwise has no open ports on the firewall.

    Akamai for their enterprise plan. They are ready to pay or they will stay with cloudflare for this time being?

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  • @jure12 said:
    I asked more like a Proxy, to hide the real IP address of the server.

    @justaguy and Altrosky

  • GSBRTGSBRT Member, Host Rep

    Hi, we're working on building our own WAF/Cloudflare alternative. You can try it out, maybe it suits your needs. https://dutchis.net/web-application-firewall

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    @GSBRT said:
    Hi, we're working on building our own WAF/Cloudflare alternative. You can try it out, maybe it suits your needs. https://dutchis.net/web-application-firewall

    Do you support inbound connection from the origin server, similar to cloudflared?

  • stefemanstefeman Member
    edited December 2024

    @yoursunny said:

    @GSBRT said:
    Hi, we're working on building our own WAF/Cloudflare alternative. You can try it out, maybe it suits your needs. https://dutchis.net/web-application-firewall

    Do you support inbound connection from the origin server, similar to cloudflared?

    This could be done with VPN and/or traefik or haproxy or caddy and configs can be integrated into web ui. Then just define what services are allowed and what traffic you forward and to what ports and route them accordingly. keep track of the routes based on account.

  • GSBRTGSBRT Member, Host Rep

    @yoursunny said:

    @GSBRT said:
    Hi, we're working on building our own WAF/Cloudflare alternative. You can try it out, maybe it suits your needs. https://dutchis.net/web-application-firewall

    Do you support inbound connection from the origin server, similar to cloudflared?

    No, not at this time. It is a nice feature, maybe something for next year :)

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