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This 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
Isn't that quite reasonable? Especially if you're scared if your site goes down.
I think Cloudflare is fine in most of the cases. Putting title "Never use Cloudflare free plan" with so weak arguments in the blog post is too much.
I 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.
While we are on the subject of rate limiting and such, does Cloudflare allow using its service for serving video files for a media heavy social media app where we store the videos on Backblaze B2? I’m working on such an app, and am hoping to use Cloudflare + Backblaze B2, because of the bandwidth alliance. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/bandwidth-alliance/ However, the Terms of Service say: > 2.8 Limitation on Serv…
You'll have to get an Enterprise account for that (it's no longer starting at $5K/mo, you can get custom accounts setup to match your needs).
Sounds 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?
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You shouldn't assume that he is correct either; i'm a free plan user and have never experienced this
If you're on free plan you have no way to know if this has happened to your website.
you can (and should) put monitors on the outside of your infrastructure as well as inside. I've multiples hitting the login page and robots file where I work, and never got an unaccounted 503
what a load of horseshit, this is my free plan 30 day stats, 2 order magnitude more request, a order magnitude less cache hits, no request limit in sight https://i.imgur.com/UOlW836.png edit: changed bull crap to the more appropriate horseshit in response to this unsubstantiated-bordering-conspiracy blog post, because if the former is already enough to triggers the community downvoting brigades, no point in showing a…
I think Cloudflare is fine in most of the cases. Putting title "Never use Cloudflare free plan" with so weak arguments in the blog post is too much.
There's been a spate of "never" or "always" posts getting on the front page in recent days.
I guess HN users might have caught up to the rest of the internet on how to get clicks.
It does seem to be more Marketing if you want to lock in customers before they get too big to switch.
This seems a bit outrageous if true. They advertise as a DDOS protection service and then do this?
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You shouldn't assume that he is correct either; i'm a free plan user and have never experienced this
If you're on free plan you have no way to know if this has happened to your website.