Comment by astrange
4 years ago
Cloudflare is a hosting service. It has R2, workers, etc.
And a CDN is a hosting service if you push content there and don’t set it to expire.
4 years ago
Cloudflare is a hosting service. It has R2, workers, etc.
And a CDN is a hosting service if you push content there and don’t set it to expire.
In this case cloudflare isn't the host though. They have hosting services but kiwifarms only makes use of their ddos protection (which is a reverse proxy). That means they aren't the actual host.
Ignoring attacks, what will happen to their hosting bill now that requests aren’t going to a CDN anymore?
I doubt anything would happen. At the end of the day it is a web forum it doesn't exactly cost many resources to host it (from archive.org most posts seems to just be text and outside links). I'd bet the benefit they get from using cloudflare has nothing to do with caching but only with ddos protection. Without cloudflare (or some other ddos protection) their servers are going to be offline from ddos attacks anyways.