Comment by imglorp
9 hours ago
With the state of constant attack from AI scrapers and DDOS bots, you pretty much need to have a CDN from someone now, if you have a serious business service. The poor guys with single prem boxes with static HTML can /maybe/ weather some of this storm alone but not everything.
Yeah this is the gist of it. Cloudflare provides an important service that is quite challenging to implement by yourself.
This is the sad reality behind it. My websites would be constantly down because of AI scrapers. If anyone knows a good alternative, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg I am very open to hear!