Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?

#1

Post by skwasimin » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

I use Cloudflare free tier for SSL, Cloudflare Tunnels, Prebuilt DDos protection, Bot protection and more. What about you?

Re: Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?

#2

Post by 8by3 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC

I refuse to give my data, to yet another company trying to control and centralize the internet. For their "Free" service.

Instead, I pay money to run a VM with DDOS protection on vultr, to guard my infrastructure I run on prem. Use Acme.sh / lets encrypt for certs. Use bunny.net for CDN which also has some basic protections.

Re: Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?

#3

Post by torranx » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 3:38 PM UTC

I do!

Re: Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?

#4

Post by KomoD » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

No, I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.

Re: Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?

#5

Post by abstractspoon » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:12 AM UTC

I do. I only have so much energy and I'd rather apply it to my software than fighting bots

Re: Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?

#6

Post by okship » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 3:18 PM UTC

It also depends on what you are building, and who you are building for. Are most of your users or customers worry about data sovereignty? Will they be in the future? CF is a good and easy service until you need something else, if you go for a lock-in vendor, preferably you should atleast have some idea how to migrate off the choosen platform.