Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To
4 days ago
- #Cloudflare
- #Decentralization
- #DDoS
- Cloudflare outage on Tue 18 Nov caused many sites to go down.
- Centralized services like Cloudflare create a single point of failure.
- Most small sites don't actually need DDoS protection.
- Security principle: 'No one will burn a zero day on you' applies to small sites.
- Decentralized web advocates should avoid relying on centralized services.
- Alternative to Cloudflare: Set up a secondary site with round-robin DNS for redundancy.
- Core message: Face fears and host services directly on the internet to avoid dependency on Cloudflare.