Comment by lynndotpy
1 year ago
> On the other hand, without Cloudflare I'd be seeing thousands of junk requests and hacking attempts everyday, people attempting credit card fraud, etc. > > I honestly don't know what the solution is.
The solution is good security-- Cloudflare only cuts down on the noise. I'm looking at junk requests and hacking attempts flow through to my sites as we speak.
Whoops-- this was a draft I didn't intend to post in this state. I must have fatfingered the "reply" button somehow. Alas, too late to edit or delete now.
Cloudflare cuts down on the noise, but also helps does the work of preventing scrapers, people who re-sell your site wholesale, and cutting down on the noise also means cutting down on the cost of network requests.
It also can help where security is lax. You should have measures against credential stuffing, but if you don't, Cloudflare might prevent (some) of your users from being hacked. Which isn't good enough, but is better than no mitigation at all.
I don't use Cloudflare personally, but I won't dismiss it wholesale. I understand why people use it.
>Cloudflare only cuts down on the noise.
That sounds like the solution, that sounds like good security.