[XCSme]

That's a good idea, I was considering it, looked at their pricing, but was too expensive.

Also, I'm starting to dislike having everything go through Cloudflare (all my DNS). I don't dislike the company, I just don't like one entity controlling the entire internet. I don't want even more vendor-lock-in tbh.

I'm gravitating towards the failover solution, to have a VPS do health-checks on my services, if one goes down, use the Cloudflare API to update the DNS entries to the backup servers.

[pdimitar]

Yeah, in that case I'd say you're best served by having a mini PC at home, connected to an UPS (or just an old laptop, their UPS is their battery) and have your control plane be on it.

I sympathize with your reservations, it's just that at this stage of my life I am OK with having some loose ends in my infrastructure. To me CF is a good tradeoff (also I am pretty sure their free tier is quite generous? but maybe I am thinking different kinds of services) for the moment.

But in light of the recent French court order to main providers (CF included) to poison DNS in order to fight the anti-piracy circumventing users... maybe we should just move the entire control plane to Tor, or use the regular internet but doubly/triply encrypted, or use stuff like Freenet / NNCP etc.

I'll arrive at your conundrum soon enough though, I too want complete independence but I am slightly scared because the current internet infrastructure is constantly under attack to make it more malleable to censorship. Whatever people might think of piracy or any other scapegoat ("think of the children" seems to always be the adage) censorship is still not okay.