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I think this morning makes that obvious. Also, Don't run on a major cloud provider if you don't need to either (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).

Archive: https://archive.today/5c0aS

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>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.

I think this morning makes that obvious. Also, Don't run on a major cloud provider if you don't need to either (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc). Archive: https://archive.today/5c0aS From the post: >>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.
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I hate cloudflare but a lot of left wing activists were going directly after hosting providers for websites they didn't like to shut them down. I launched a gaming site in the middle of gamergate and if you didn't have cloudfag they would all gang rape your hosting provider with complaints and get your hosting yanked. Clownfag as I call it at least hides your IP and makes it a little more difficult to get stuff other than just a DNS query and a search for the hosting provider.

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Yeah, another option is to get a VPS and use it as a proxy. I have a VPS from the same company that Poal is hosted on. I have not had problems though I don't think any lefty-fags have tried to targeted me at this point.

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I use it because I could never get any cert bullshit to work correctly. Cloudflare tunnel was set it and forget it. If they want to read my TTRPG wikis and game chat, no big deal. I use other methods to communicate sensitive things.

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I agree with the sentiment that you shouldn't just rely on Cloudflare. What I don't agree with is that your little 100 visitors website won't be attacked. Look at us. I don't know the metrics, but this site certainly gets attacked while being relatively small.

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But if you don't then your site is going to get railed by jewish mafia via spam bots and takedown requests out of nowhere. Same old strategies but for digital space. You pay for the protection, or else. The customer suffers the consequences.

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How do you mitigate a DDoS without a dedicated service to do so?