Cloudflare tries to enforce pretty strong vendor lock in by requiring you use their nameservers.

Also subdelegate domains are an "enterprise" feature, so no luck there.

Basically the CDN market sucks, not a shocker Netflix, Google, Valve, and many others operate their own.

No, she's just ghosting you.

You have a good boss!

Hmm.

I'm not familiar with the constraint.

I assume that the way that this works is that I host content at www.foo.com and they have their nameserver resolve www.foo.com to different IPs based on the geolocation of the browsing user's IP.

Is it possible to convert www.foo.com to a CNAME that can be redirected away from their nameservers? Like, I make www.foo.com be a CNAME directed at www.foo-cloudflare-cdn.com . They own www.foo-cloudflare-cdn.com , they serve A or AAA queries there on their nameservers. But if I want fallback, I update the CNAME to point at www.foo-backup-cdn.com , which is served by a different CDN.

Are there technical barriers to that, do you know?

It's a joke. I don't think there's really a website called Frank's Dildo Emporium. But if there is, lmk.

Quitting my last job for this one might be the best thing I've done since I tricked my wife into marrying down.

My mental and physical health has improved a ton.

I use it for DNS and domain hosting, but that's it, none of their proxying stuff.

The one downvote on this comment makes it like 20x funnier

I had guessed the nature of the site and "roleplay." It is a tad silly on my part to not have guessed "erotic"; thanks for getting me there (and not in an erotic way).

edit: Had left out the word "there."

It also flags my DNS filter and nearly every site I go to has to "check if I'm human"

The way CDNs and virtual hosts work in general is to read the host field in the HTTP header, otherwise unless you dedicate an IP for each domain / "web site" there would be no way to know what to serve.

The issue is if you put the CNAME of foo www.foo-cloudflare-cdn.com. then it will just resolve to whatever the A/AAAA record is for that, and send the host of www.foo.com – which they will only service if that domain is hosted with their nameservers (they run automated checks to make sure you're actually doing so).
So there isn't really an easy way to just give cloudflare some subdomain, unless you pay them $$,$$$+ for the privilege.

Valve actually does that, ironically enough, for the steam community web assets they use Fastly, Akamai, and CloudFront, all on subdomains of course .

been really enjoying pangolin so far! i got scared and ended up not installing crowdsec.

am i missing out? how hard would that be to add after the fact?

You could just google it-

oh wait

When I get to that screen, I just x out most of the time. It's usually not that important.

I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.

Interesting, I have a lot less problems with the Cloudflare verification, than with Google captchas. The slightest unusual thing seems to put you in captcha hell

What browsers does it block?

Well that was fun!

Does it need to?