Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
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Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#2This seems a bit outrageous if true. They advertise as a DDOS protection service and then do this?
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#3I am talking internally with the customer support team about what happened to this customer's traffic. It is definitively not the case that doing "four requests per minute" gets you rate limited.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#4That does seem strange, I never experienced this myself. Also, I don't understand the use case for Cloudflare here, can you elaborate on "I’ve been using Cloudflare free plan for Abot"
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#5This seems a bit outrageous if true. They advertise as a DDOS protection service and then do this?
That is SUPER scary, as a high volume website
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#6I am talking internally with the customer support team about what happened to this customer's traffic. It is definitively not the case that doing "four requests per minute" gets you rate limited.
Regardless of the reason being the limit or not - are these limits published anywhere? It doesn’t appear to be the case.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#7I am talking internally with the customer support team about what happened to this customer's traffic. It is definitively not the case that doing "four requests per minute" gets you rate limited.
There is a connection limit???
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#8This article seems fairly scant on details to be honest. I understand how they came to the conclusion, but there's still quite a lot of conjecture here.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#9I am talking internally with the customer support team about what happened to this customer's traffic. It is definitively not the case that doing "four requests per minute" gets you rate limited.
A great first step would be to take responsibility for what the customer has proven to happen. "It is definitively not the case that doing" is directly at odds with what the author provides, you might want to reframe your message to "it shouldn't be like this but unfortunately it is like this right now, sorry" rather than dismissing the author with that they are not correct.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#10Sounds scary.
I would not want to use a CDN with some hidden limits. Especially not if I don't even get informed when rate limited.
I can imagine them rate limiting me in a way that I will never notice. Like only limiting requests from some other country or continent.
What is a good CDN for a site that has about a million visitors per month? And how much would one have to expect to pay for it?