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Perhaps I'm overreacting, but I had my personal site on Netlify and decided to move it. I don't need anything more than a dumping ground for HTML, and Netlify w

Perhaps I'm overreacting, but I had my personal site on Netlify and decided to move it. I don't need anything more than a dumping ground for HTML, and Netlify was "good enough" (I wasn't aware that this issue existed) What brought it closer to home was the characteristics of the recently affect site (same number of daily visits, not popular (a bit niche), etc) where similar to mine. Moving is easy enough, mostly requiring a DNS update, since I prefer to build the HTML locally and then just dumping it somewhere. What struck me as odd, when looking for an alternative is that almost none of the popular solutions Netlify, Vercel, Cloudfare (AFAIK) actually implement a spend limit. This seems like such a basic thing to do...

aetherspawn 3y ago
Cloudflare has DDOS protection which you can set to basically paranoid and once a DDOS starts then everyone will get a captcha. This limits your spend quite effectively.
- Filligree 3y ago
  And also stop me accessing the site entirely. I don't know why, but every site with CF DDoS protection set to paranoid gives me infinite captchas that I can never pass.
  - jbaber 3y ago
    For me this happens because of some combination o| - firefox - userAgent spoofing claiming I'm chrome - pihole If I change enough of these, I get through the infinite loop. Does not make me happy.
victorbjorklund 3y ago
Cloudflare pages has unlimited free bandwidth so you dont need a limit because traffic is free.
leerob 3y ago
(I work at Vercel) We do have DDoS protection, and spend limits. Working on releasing some further improvements to both of these imminently as well. https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-spend-management-realtime-usage-alerts-sms-notifications https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-spend-management-realtim...
- remram 3y ago
  Vercel is 2 out of the 4 issues in the article. Hard no, man, come on. Based on the info in this thread, Vercel is the only company I'd leave for Netlify.

aetherspawn 3y ago

Cloudflare has DDOS protection which you can set to basically paranoid and once a DDOS starts then everyone will get a captcha. This limits your spend quite effectively.

Filligree 3y ago
And also stop me accessing the site entirely. I don't know why, but every site with CF DDoS protection set to paranoid gives me infinite captchas that I can never pass.
- jbaber 3y ago
  For me this happens because of some combination o| - firefox - userAgent spoofing claiming I'm chrome - pihole If I change enough of these, I get through the infinite loop. Does not make me happy.

victorbjorklund 3y ago

Cloudflare pages has unlimited free bandwidth so you dont need a limit because traffic is free.

leerob 3y ago

(I work at Vercel) We do have DDoS protection, and spend limits. Working on releasing some further improvements to both of these imminently as well. https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-spend-management-realtime-usage-alerts-sms-notifications https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-spend-management-realtim...

remram 3y ago
Vercel is 2 out of the 4 issues in the article. Hard no, man, come on. Based on the info in this thread, Vercel is the only company I'd leave for Netlify.