Cloudflare Tunnel does not support the needed keep-alive → ngrok
“Not every tunnel is fond of keep-alive (Cloudflare), so I had to switch to ngrok”
2 people say they left Cloudflare; what else pushes users away, and what its category peers report
Friction holds 27 sourced reports about Cloudflare (cloudflare.com) from 45 public source threads; only 2 of them say the author left. This page shows those reports, what its users say pushes them away, and the problem profile of Vercel.
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Where Cloudflare users say they went
Switching reports that name a destination. Every report quotes a real commenter and links to the thread it came from.
| Named alternative | Reports naming it | Newest report |
|---|---|---|
| Proper databases | 1 | 2026 |
| Ngrok | 1 | 2024 |
| A self-managed Nginx reverse proxy | 1 | 2024 |
The reports of leaving
Poor Zero Trust usability is prompting a move to a self-managed proxy → A self-managed Nginx reverse proxy
“I’m getting quite close to writing my own simple managed reverse proxy system based on Nginx”
What pushes people away from Cloudflare
Open reports about a customer's money or workflow, or that block work or cause churn: customer-side reports first, then worst severity. Each links to the item with its source. Reports about third-party add-ons and outsiders' abuse are left out.
Cache rules added 300–600 ms of latency to routes · Performance · Blocks work
“enabling a single cache rule on a specific path added anywhere from 300-600ms latency on every route”
Turnstile blocks Linux and Firefox users · Permissions & security · Blocks work
“If yes, to one or both, you're blocked!”
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Other hosting and deployment tools on Friction, and what their users struggle with
Switching trades one set of problems for another. The same evidence, for each tool Friction covers in this category:
Vercel
17 reports · 53 source threads · most-discussed area: API & developer experience
Every report quotes a real commenter and links to the thread it came from. How the data is built.