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There are so many things sites need to protect against these days it’s making independent self hosting quite annoying. As bots get better at hiding, only compan
by _lvbh 2y ago
There are so many things sites need to protect against these days it’s making independent self hosting quite annoying. As bots get better at hiding, only companies with huge scale like Cloudflare would be able to identify and block them. DDOS/bot providers are unintentionally creating a monopoly
- thelastparadise 2y agoOr get an unmetered dedicated server with provided DDoS protection and let it sort itself out.
- rchaud 2y agoCloudflare is running the "email spam protection" play that handed the power to Microsoft and Google and made self-hosted email nearly impossible because emails from those domains would end up getting blocked on Outlook and Gmail.
- 123yawaworht456 2y agounless you're hosting wordpress on a $5 vps, random bot traffic won't affect your website at all. it's just background radiation