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It's horrific UX. I use a VPN and I constantly get hit with the cloudflare page and a lot of the sites I see it on are small, amateur sites or personal sites t

It's horrific UX. I use a VPN and I constantly get hit with the cloudflare page and a lot of the sites I see it on are small, amateur sites or personal sites that just need a Wordpress page. They don't need Cloudflare. Getting bloody sick of this new centralization of the web. It's a worrying new trend that the very nature of how the Internet works is being reshaped and controlled by a handful of entities.

Sylos 10y ago
Here's a fun game for the family: Search for "cheesecake" in your search engine of choice and then count how many links you have to check before you find a webpage which does not connect to one of: Google, CloudFlare, Akamai, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter For me, it was 34 links. And that 34th link was the Wikipedia-article for cheesecake...
- _Understated_ 10y ago
  ^ My point exactly. There are a handful of entities that now control the flow of the Internet's information and that worries me deeply.
viraptor 10y ago
Cloudflare has multiple uses. You may want it for their dos protection for example. In that case it doesn't matter if it's small WordPress site or something else.
detaro 10y ago
On the other hand, how often do pages that suddenly become popular get hugged to death, because they are just a small Wordpress page on a VPS or shared hosting somewhere? Throwing a CDN in front to catch these traffic spikes can do a lot.
technion 10y ago
Often, that description is exactly the kind of site that needs Cloudflare - the blog or brochureware site built by someone with no devops or Wordpress abilities in general - who ends up with a Wordpress site that maxes out at 0.5req/sec. Which then gets a Facebook advertising campaign.
garysieling 10y ago
Putting the free version of Cloudflare in front of a Wordpress site is the greatest thing. I used to spent a lot of time hunting down performance/stability issues with a VPS I built, now it's almost never a problem.

Sylos 10y ago

Here's a fun game for the family: Search for "cheesecake" in your search engine of choice and then count how many links you have to check before you find a webpage which does not connect to one of: Google, CloudFlare, Akamai, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter For me, it was 34 links. And that 34th link was the Wikipedia-article for cheesecake...

_Understated_ 10y ago
^ My point exactly. There are a handful of entities that now control the flow of the Internet's information and that worries me deeply.

viraptor 10y ago

Cloudflare has multiple uses. You may want it for their dos protection for example. In that case it doesn't matter if it's small WordPress site or something else.

detaro 10y ago

On the other hand, how often do pages that suddenly become popular get hugged to death, because they are just a small Wordpress page on a VPS or shared hosting somewhere? Throwing a CDN in front to catch these traffic spikes can do a lot.

technion 10y ago

Often, that description is exactly the kind of site that needs Cloudflare - the blog or brochureware site built by someone with no devops or Wordpress abilities in general - who ends up with a Wordpress site that maxes out at 0.5req/sec. Which then gets a Facebook advertising campaign.

garysieling 10y ago

Putting the free version of Cloudflare in front of a Wordpress site is the greatest thing. I used to spent a lot of time hunting down performance/stability issues with a VPS I built, now it's almost never a problem.