Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don’t Need To
Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don’t Need To At the time of writing 12:43 UTC on Tue 18 Nov, Cloudflare has taken many sites down. I’m trying to browse the web, but about half of the sites show an error: Most of these sites are not even that big. I expect maybe a few thousand visitors per month. This demonstrates again a simple fact: if you put your site behind a centralized service, then that service can take your site down together with half the internet. Most people use Cloudflare because they have been scared into the idea that you need DDoS protection. Well, maybe you do, but probably you don’t. As they say in security, “no one will burn a zero day on you!”. For your small blog with one hundred visitors per month, it’s probably the same: “no one will burn their DDoS…
