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We dislike it because nobody needs it. Nobody here is getting DDoS'd to any extend that needs external protection.
I'm talking anecdotally but it seems to me that all the people who ride-or-die Cloudflare are also self-hosters who aren't very knowledgeable about self-hosting concepts and just heard that cloudflare protects against all these imaginary problems because they sure do sound scary!
I mean, I don’t use it for DDOS protection. I use it as a cdn, which is something I absolutely cannot self host. At least not on a budget.
I ask with genuine curiosity, what do you need a CDN for?
I host a GameVault server with a largeish number of games, but the people who use the server span the entirety of the globe. The number of people isn’t huge, but serving a 100GB file to SEA from the US just isn’t going to be a good time for anyone involved.