We dislike it because nobody needs it. Nobody here is getting DDoS'd to any extend that needs external protection.
I'm talking anecdotally but it seems to me that all the people who ride-or-die Cloudflare are also self-hosters who aren't very knowledgeable about self-hosting concepts and just heard that cloudflare protects against all these imaginary problems because they sure do sound scary!
If you can push a minority group into desperation, then you get to play the moral high ground when they act out of desperation. It's not a new trick by any means.
I wrote this article to lament the loss of the curious spark in our developer culture, not to criticize or judge anyone. I understand the world moves on,
I think your world moved on, Dayvi Schuster, as my world still works like this. I think you have surrounded yourself with aging dead-end personalities and corporate sellouts, who have distracted themselves with the rat race and forgotten the world of curiosity and creation.
This is basic life philosophy. Nothing is perfect, but you can choose which problems you want to deal with. Linux presents the least amount of struggle to fixing the problems it gives me, so I use Linux everywhere.
A fresh Debian container uses 22 MiB of RAM. A fresh debian VM uses 200+ MiB of RAM.A VM has to translate every single hardware interaction, a container doesn't.
I don't want to fuck flies about the definition of 'huge' with you, but that's kind of a huge difference.
Side note- people will tell you not to put dockers in an LXC but fuck em. I don't want to pollute my hypervisor with docker's bullshit and the performance impact is negligeable.
I recommend you use containers instead of VMs when possible, as VMs have a huge overhead by comparison, but yes. Each service gets its own container, unless 2 services need to share data. My music container, for example, is host to both Gonic, slskd and Samba.
They use some of the same kernel functions but they are not the same. They are not comparable. LXCs are used to host a whole separate system that shares kernel with its host, docker is used to bundle external requirements and configs for a piece of software for ease of downstream setup. Docker is portable, LXCs much less so.
We dislike it because nobody needs it. Nobody here is getting DDoS'd to any extend that needs external protection.
I'm talking anecdotally but it seems to me that all the people who ride-or-die Cloudflare are also self-hosters who aren't very knowledgeable about self-hosting concepts and just heard that cloudflare protects against all these imaginary problems because they sure do sound scary!