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See also: Cloudflare in front of Mastodon. A lot of naive Mastodon admins are putting default Cloudflare configurations in front of their instances. The proble
by danpalmer 4y ago
See also: Cloudflare in front of Mastodon.
A lot of naive Mastodon admins are putting default Cloudflare configurations in front of their instances. The problem is that inter-instance requests necessary for federation then get caught as bots (because they essentially are) and connections in the network degrade, causing eventual de-federation.
Cloudflare is magic, in the good and bad ways. I'd only use it for very small personal sites or things that can afford downtime and don't need integrations, or for large businesses that can afford the enterprise plans and will actively manage the account and respond to business and tech needs with config changes.
- pbronez 4y agoI wonder if their Wildebeast ActivityPub implementation will have similar issues.
- worldofmatthew 4y ago"very small personal sites" don't need Cloudflare.
- Dylan16807 4y agoAny site should be able to survive DDOS.
- worldofmatthew 4y agoMost small websites will never get attacked.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoWith which strategies would "any site" survive DDoS without paying Cloudflare or some other middleman?
- Dylan16807 4y agoThat was my point.
- robga 4y agoAre there any public reports of this? It’s not something I’ve seen anywhere and not my experience. I “googled” it and all that came up was your mastodon post saying the same thing.