The way I read the screenshots of the emails from the articles seemed to suggest that something the authors company was doing was causing issues with IP reputation on CloudFlares range.
Them very aggressively highlighting the BYO IP feature and then even suggesting third parties to rent IPs from strikes me as a significant detour from their normal “script” (having dealt with their AU sales team before).
This feels like a reaction to Edge beginning to eat the enterprise market.
The problem is convincing anyone to buy on to gamble if this product will exist by the end of the contract.
I haven’t looked closer, but it’ll be very funny if this is fully GPO driven when Microsoft is already pushing for cloud configuration via Intune instead.
My go-to for anything more complicated is definitely NGINX, but for ease of use in a very straightforward docker containers running HTTP services, it’s hard to beat the ease of use of the modified version of Caddy I linked
Something a lot of other comments seem to be skipping out on is storage, proxmox provides an easy hyperconverged option with its support for CEPH, which provides a much more battle tested option when compared to k8s solutions like longhorn.
It’d be nice to see continued adoption if only to make things searchable when prerendered. Locking data behind an API with a requisite auth token means discoverability goes away.
But sadly I think that era has come to an end, with every content company scrambling to lock data away to levy a fee for LLM training.