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> 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 t
by 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 agoThis 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 agoGood 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 agoIs 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?