Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Cloudflare provides some nice services that have nothing to do with cloud or not. You can self-host private tunnels, application firewalls, traffic filtering, etc, or you can focus on building your application and managing your servers.

I am a self-host enthousiast. So I use Hetzner, Kamal and other tools for self-managing our servers, but we still have Cloudflare in front of them because we didn't want to handle the parts I mentioned (yet, we might sometime).

Calling it a mistake is a very narrow look at it. Just because it goes down every now and then, it isn't a mistake. Going for cloud or not has its trade-offs and I agree that paying 200 dollars a month for a 1GB Heroku Redis instance is complete madness when you can get a 4GB VPS on Hetzner for 3,8 a month. Then again, some people are willing to make that trade-off for not having to manage the servers.

Cloud servers have taught me so much about working with servers because they are so easy and cheap to spin up, experiment with and then get rid of again. If I had had to buy racks and host them each time I wanted to try something, I would've never done it.

Glad to see things are actually working here! Also, my website (halomate.ai) is using CF too, and surprisingly, it's working fine as well

Off topic, but the 500 page from prusa3d is quite good:

https://www.prusa3d.com/

https://imgur.com/a/OW5KL8r

Once upon a time, the end of the world happened

I would only consider doing stuff on-prem because of services like Cloudflare. You can have some of the global features like edge-caching while also getting the (cost) benefits of on-prem.