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I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free. Whenever you expect to get a
by ricardbejarano 7y ago
I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free.
Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.
- jagged-chisel 7y agoDoes the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?
- esotericn 7y agoThey terminate TLS for you.
- notduncansmith 7y agoThey can, although they support end-to-end encryption as well.
- big_chungus 7y agoMost of the "HN crowd" like cloudflare a lot, as it's quite convenient, especially for personal projects. There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons: taking down too much, not taking down enough, centralization, etc.
- ricardbejarano 7y ago> There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons [...] I'll have to agree, there are few but very vocal.
- jlg23 7y agoPrivacy. Cloudfare-users hand a lot of their clients' data to a third party.