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This seems a bit outrageous if true. They advertise as a DDOS protection service and then do this?

by ramraj07 6y ago

bratao 6y ago
That is SUPER scary, as a high volume website
- jowsie 6y ago
  If you're such a high volume site then why not pay for CDN/DDOS Protection? I'm amazed so many people feel this is something they deserve for free, and then complain when there's some kind of limitation on the free thing they're receiving.
  - strken 6y ago
    If someone gave me a free car and I suddenly discovered that it had stopped working at 8:30am on Monday morning because the free car plan didn't support peak hour, just when I needed it most, I'd be annoyed as hell. This would be the case no matter how much I got paid at my job. Getting a nasty surprise because you didn't realise a product was inferior is upsetting for reasons that should be pretty obvious. Admittedly the cloudflare free plan does say it's for things "that aren’t business-critical", but what does that actually mean in terms of resource quota and expected uptime?
  - ramraj07 6y ago
    I don't care as much for DDOS protection as for free easy SSL which gets semi annoying to set up for me personally. I assumed cloudflare was an option from their advertisment and never worried about it. Now I suppose I will.
- Jonnax 6y ago
  So I looked on their site and they charge $20 a month for 4 hour support response for urgent issues. [0] Isn't that quite reasonable? Especially if you're scared if your site goes down. [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/ https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/
capableweb 6y ago
How do you expect to be protected from DDoS if not via limiting the number of connections?
Lyrex 6y ago
I know from experience that they might take some actions if you take too much of a DDoS on their free plan but I never heard of that on some usual traffic, especially not when it's as low as the blog suggests (sub 10 rpm). The attacks my blog received were in the thousand requests per second area when it got suspended.
sirn 6y ago
I've been using Cloudflare for a site that has around 400k requests per day on a Free plan (although I did buy a dedicated certificate and a domain from them) and Cloudflare has been very reliable to me except few hiccups in the past. I've had an instance of Cloudflare failing only on a single region, but after talking to support it turns out to be some route caching issue on their side, which subsequently fixed. I would not assume anything until there's some clarification on Cloudflare side. It might just be a bug.
deadalus 6y ago
They have also censored and removed sites in the past without notice.

This seems a bit outrageous if true. They advertise as a DDOS protection service and then do this?

bratao 6y ago

That is SUPER scary, as a high volume website

jowsie 6y ago
If you're such a high volume site then why not pay for CDN/DDOS Protection? I'm amazed so many people feel this is something they deserve for free, and then complain when there's some kind of limitation on the free thing they're receiving.
- strken 6y ago
  If someone gave me a free car and I suddenly discovered that it had stopped working at 8:30am on Monday morning because the free car plan didn't support peak hour, just when I needed it most, I'd be annoyed as hell. This would be the case no matter how much I got paid at my job. Getting a nasty surprise because you didn't realise a product was inferior is upsetting for reasons that should be pretty obvious. Admittedly the cloudflare free plan does say it's for things "that aren’t business-critical", but what does that actually mean in terms of resource quota and expected uptime?
- ramraj07 6y ago
  I don't care as much for DDOS protection as for free easy SSL which gets semi annoying to set up for me personally. I assumed cloudflare was an option from their advertisment and never worried about it. Now I suppose I will.
Jonnax 6y ago
So I looked on their site and they charge $20 a month for 4 hour support response for urgent issues. [0] Isn't that quite reasonable? Especially if you're scared if your site goes down. [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/ https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/

capableweb 6y ago

How do you expect to be protected from DDoS if not via limiting the number of connections?

Lyrex 6y ago

I know from experience that they might take some actions if you take too much of a DDoS on their free plan but I never heard of that on some usual traffic, especially not when it's as low as the blog suggests (sub 10 rpm). The attacks my blog received were in the thousand requests per second area when it got suspended.

sirn 6y ago

I've been using Cloudflare for a site that has around 400k requests per day on a Free plan (although I did buy a dedicated certificate and a domain from them) and Cloudflare has been very reliable to me except few hiccups in the past. I've had an instance of Cloudflare failing only on a single region, but after talking to support it turns out to be some route caching issue on their side, which subsequently fixed. I would not assume anything until there's some clarification on Cloudflare side. It might just be a bug.

deadalus 6y ago

They have also censored and removed sites in the past without notice.