Comment by levkk

1 year ago

We care, we just can't spend the resources self-hosting business critical infrastructure. It'll break, get AI-DoSed, or will have an expired cert. It's a boring and risky problem to solve. Cloudflare provides a really good service for basically free.

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ZWoz  1 year ago

> It'll break

If you add additional piece to chain, chain becomes weaker, not stronger

> get AI-DoSed

Thats not that common. There are specific industries prone to DDoS, like gaming, but your average site don't get DDoS-ed. Then again CF free service really don't protect your site from DDoS. I have seen several times CF becoming source of DoS (not caching or denying malicious requests) and if back-end is on shared infra, CF goes to firewall.

> will have an expired cert.

Your back-end still needs certificate

oguz-ismail  1 year ago

It's not free at all. You give them access to your unencrypted traffic and they give you protection from attacks they finance themselves. You're being ripped off