Comment by acheong08
1 year 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
Or get an unmetered dedicated server with provided DDoS protection and let it sort itself out.
Cloudflare 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.
unless you're hosting wordpress on a $5 vps, random bot traffic won't affect your website at all. it's just background radiation