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I actually just went the other way. I found CF is a bit too aggressive with anti-DDOS measures, and the page would not work sometimes in Safari with default set

I actually just went the other way. I found CF is a bit too aggressive with anti-DDOS measures, and the page would not work sometimes in Safari with default settings. The default setup for GH Pages is not great. Jekyll is very dated. But if you use GH Actions, you can build yourself a pretty great setup. My site is open source at https://github.com/jacobp100/jacob-does-code https://github.com/jacobp100/jacob-does-code - there's also a blog post about how the build system works.

londons_explore 6y ago
Usually when I need static site hosting, I don't want to build myself a great setup - I want to click a few buttons and have a great setup. Third party free hosting excels at the ability to do a start to finish page in inside an hour. I want to spend 55 minutes of that hour writing the text, not fiddling with oddities of how to make GitHub actions show me the parse errors of my markdown...
bombcar 6y ago
Safari + IPv6 = find out a lot about crosswalks and stoplights.
sedachv 6y ago
> I found CF is a bit too aggressive with anti-DDOS measures As someone who does a lot of browsing with unpopular web browsers, Cloudflare is basically a way to ensure that it is a coin toss as to whether or not I will see your site; it is not the worst CDN/DoS protection racket service out there though. I would like to see how much legitimate traffic Cloudflare or the others block, and how much website operators are spending on that "service."
- Jamie9912 6y ago
  This is something that is configurable though. If you leave your Firewall security mode to default, then yes it will block IPs with bad rep. If I don't care about anti-ddos, I just set the Firewall security to Low, and create a Firewall rule to allow everything from 0.0.0.0/0, simple as that.
  - sedachv 6y ago
    Good to know that about Cloudflare. Believe it or not, there is at least one DoS protection provider/Web Application Firewall service/whatever you want to call it, that seems to default to asking you to solve captchas to view web pages.
- throwawaysea 6y ago
  Is there a good alternative, particularly one that does not impose their own moderation/censorship regime? After Cloudflare decided to abandon content neutrality (https://reclaimthenet.org/cloudflare-suspends-8chan/ https://reclaimthenet.org/cloudflare-suspends-8chan/) I really don’t want anything to do with them. Or are there reasonable software or hardware options to protect one’s own servers directly without relying on a third party service?
dhosek 6y ago
I had cloudflare set up on a mediawiki site until last year when for some reason I disabled it and discovered that a lot of issues I'd had accessing the site in Safari went away (like it not letting me login except in private browsing).

londons_explore 6y ago

Usually when I need static site hosting, I don't want to build myself a great setup - I want to click a few buttons and have a great setup. Third party free hosting excels at the ability to do a start to finish page in inside an hour. I want to spend 55 minutes of that hour writing the text, not fiddling with oddities of how to make GitHub actions show me the parse errors of my markdown...

bombcar 6y ago

Safari + IPv6 = find out a lot about crosswalks and stoplights.

sedachv 6y ago

> I found CF is a bit too aggressive with anti-DDOS measures As someone who does a lot of browsing with unpopular web browsers, Cloudflare is basically a way to ensure that it is a coin toss as to whether or not I will see your site; it is not the worst CDN/DoS protection racket service out there though. I would like to see how much legitimate traffic Cloudflare or the others block, and how much website operators are spending on that "service."

Jamie9912 6y ago
This is something that is configurable though. If you leave your Firewall security mode to default, then yes it will block IPs with bad rep. If I don't care about anti-ddos, I just set the Firewall security to Low, and create a Firewall rule to allow everything from 0.0.0.0/0, simple as that.
- sedachv 6y ago
  Good to know that about Cloudflare. Believe it or not, there is at least one DoS protection provider/Web Application Firewall service/whatever you want to call it, that seems to default to asking you to solve captchas to view web pages.
throwawaysea 6y ago
Is there a good alternative, particularly one that does not impose their own moderation/censorship regime? After Cloudflare decided to abandon content neutrality (https://reclaimthenet.org/cloudflare-suspends-8chan/ https://reclaimthenet.org/cloudflare-suspends-8chan/) I really don’t want anything to do with them. Or are there reasonable software or hardware options to protect one’s own servers directly without relying on a third party service?

dhosek 6y ago

I had cloudflare set up on a mediawiki site until last year when for some reason I disabled it and discovered that a lot of issues I'd had accessing the site in Safari went away (like it not letting me login except in private browsing).