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As of a few years ago, HN could run fine without CloudFlare and just nginx. CF was mostly to try and obscure the server's IP, and to handle (rare) DDoS attacks.
by kogir 9y ago
As of a few years ago, HN could run fine without CloudFlare and just nginx. CF was mostly to try and obscure the server's IP, and to handle (rare) DDoS attacks.