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Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To - Rik's Weblog (huijzer.xyz)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I really dont like this centralization of the internet into a few gigantic companies having every site under their wings. And then something goes wrong and millions of web sites are affected.

It also gives these companies the power to shut down any of their user sites.

On the other hand, handling a ddos attack is hardly possible without them these days.

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[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 72 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

And then someone posts your tiny hobby site to a popular forum and you get hugged to death. There are plenty of people who say they don’t like centralization (which is fair), and a lot who mention not using Cloudflare (which is fair), but there exists plenty of great reasons to use the tech whether you like it or not.

Instead we should be focused on what the alternatives are depending on your needs, recommending solutions to actual problems, rather than just yelling at the sky.

Those are just a few I’ve used in the past in enterprise settings, but there are a lot out there.

[–] exu@feditown.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So what if your tiny site is offline for a bit. It's not like you're selling anything and the people will find an archive link

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, and modern webservers are - very - good at handling a ton of requests, if your backend is solid, it takes quite a lot of traffic before it’ll buckle.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah thats great. Thank you!

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

DDoS is a problem that happens once in a blue moon. Most people don’t need DDoS protection.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

I used to think this way until all this AI garbage happened. My tiny tech blog suddenly got 100x the traffic after the AI boom, all from bots and scrapers. I started with basic solutions but after a few weeks, gave up and used cloudflare because it's free and I'm sick of playing wackamole.

It's a mess out there.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is awesome! I appreciate the list!

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Anubis?

[–] MacStainless@piefed.social 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

AFAIK Anubis is a bot checker and not a caching service.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I tought anubis anti ddos, so no death hug.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

Anubis doesn’t protect against a large volume of legitimate traffic, which is what the hug of death is.