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It's a trade-off. If you trust Cloudflare it adds additional protection against bad guys. If you don't trust them don't use them. Same with Amazon or any other
by Nokinside 8y ago
It's a trade-off. If you trust Cloudflare it adds additional protection against bad guys. If you don't trust them don't use them. Same with Amazon or any other place where you can rent server room.
Using Cloudflare gives control for control over which part of their site can use shared cache and which is direct link.
If you don't trust anyone, run your own servers and don't hire sysadmins.
- staunch 8y ago> ... and don't hire sysadmins. People you hire can be vetted, fired, sued, and even imprisoned for violating your users' privacy. Blindly handing over your users' data to a third-party includes none of these protections. You're simply abdicating responsibility.
- Nokinside 8y agoOkay then. But you must have them on site 24/7 to be able to respond as fast as Couldfare to any new security issues. You must pay them a lots of money because they must be expert level. You also need to have 24/7 security around your servers and all the backups and redundancy. Very few businesses have customer information that is wroth the paranoia and investment to doing everything inhouse.