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what is the use case for cloudflare?
is it still self hosting if you use an external service like that?
cloudflare is not self hosting. it is however a simple place to have a page / worker on a free plan that watches a github repo and on changes does a pull and does a ci step like an install of a vue3 app. it then serves the app on a domain. so I can spin up a test vue3+ts app and know I can share it with the public. so like a personal homepage or something simple.
knowing a bad actor won’t be thinking “flandish self hosts if I can break into site’s IP I can assume he also self hosts good stuff”
at the worst a bad actor will ddos a free plan page on cloudflare which can handle it.
thanks for the detailed answer!