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CloudFlare is actually a CDN proxy, so you could overcome this by hardwiring your web server firewall rules to the CloudFlare platform.
by kondro 15y ago
CloudFlare is actually a CDN proxy, so you could overcome this by hardwiring your web server firewall rules to the CloudFlare platform.
- kitcar 15y agoAh, so basically use IPTables to detect if the request is originating from CloudFlare's CDN, and if it is not redirect it via CloudFlare?
- blantonl 15y agoNo, you would configure your firewall to only allow requests from CloudFlare's infrastructure.
- DisposaBoy 15y agoIn that case why don't you?/they? just offer proper hosting because if you're gonna go that far you're just wasting bandwidth, money and other resources aren't you?