Cloudflare Has a Silver Lining

When I first looked at Cloudflare I was confused. I was looking for certain things in a DNS provider, and what they offered didn’t seem to correspond to anything that I was familiar with. I just figured that these were things that must be for big web sites for big companies, and went on to try something else.

But finally I was looking at some YouTube videos about about their web tunneling technology, so I decided to take a closer look, and I’m really glad that I did. Once I understood that their technology was totally different, I was able to piece together what was needed, and allowing me to serve the web from a tiny home server, (hopefully) fully secure, was too good to pass up. It didn’t hurt that the services that I needed fell into the bounds of their free plan, either.

So kudos to Cloudflare for coming up with a totally new paradigm for both web security and web serving, and I hope that any readers will appreciate how much they have done to generate a good environment for private technologist as well as big companies.