Comment by judge2020
4 years ago
Slightly off-topic, but what happened during the time HN was using Cloudflare (August 2017 up to August 2018 by the looks of it)? Was it a trial and enough people complained about the usage, or otherwise had issues accessing from niche user agents?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799223
I’m surprised by this comment. Fewer moving parts is great, but having managed a news site, where peak traffic can dwarf typical traffic, I’ve just come to accept the necessary evil of a CDN. How are you managing the spikes?
they don't, the site just falls over occasionally :)
I'm not sure with this instance but I do know that people complained since CF is the antithesis of privacy and the free internet.