saltywhistle

When I broke my leg a few years back the ambulance was only 15-20 minutes behind mountain rescue. They took me to the nearest hospital where they set my leg in a cast and then transported me to my local hospital half an hour away at around midnight. I was operated on around noon.

They started me on light physio the day after the operation and taught me how to walk on crutches. I continued to receive weekly 1 on 1 physio until I was able to walk with one crutch, at which point I was able to attend group physio. I got a few X-Rays during this time to see how my leg was healing. I was back to climbing after 6 months, having been discharged from physio for a month at that point.

All of this cost me £0.

I've since donated to the local mountain rescue service, but everything else is covered by my taxes and NI.

I use Cloudflare tunnels to expose lots of small projects to the internet that I host on my home server. I don't want my home internet to be knocked offline because someone decides to hammer my network and knock me offline for a while.

Cloudflare handles caching of static resources, rate limiting, and blocking of bots with very little configuration.

Also, my ISP here in the UK doesn't provide static IP addresses, so Cloudflare allows me to avoid using a dynamic DNS service, and avoid exposing ports on my router.