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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
#102I 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.
My application[1] with similar rpm as OP received 503 status last month for about an hour first time in 1.5 years, I assumed it to be an one-off issue at CF end. It happened while I was using it and so I'm now concerned if it's a regular affair for my users, most of whom are not from my geographical location(data-center). I'm a free plan user because my application is not monetized and obviously would switch to paid…
Talk to support.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#103I 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.
I understand you can't share a customer's account details. But can we at least get an update if this is the intended behaviour of the CF free plan accounts (so people know to upgrade) or is it an one-off incident?
As I said above, this is not someone hitting a rate limit.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please keep us posted. From a naive perspective, what happened has a flavor of "protection fees." A detailed explanation would help quickly dispel this perspective.
It's going to be hard for me to keep you posted because it would mean discussing a customer's account and I can't do that. That's confidential.
Hopefully OP will come back and update us
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#105For a low volume slack bot, why even have Cloudflare front it?
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is SUPER scary, as a high volume website
If you're such a high volume site then why not pay for CDN/DDOS Protection? I'm amazed so many people feel this is something they deserve for free, and then complain when there's some kind of limitation on the free thing they're receiving.
I don't care as much for DDOS protection as for free easy SSL which gets semi annoying to set up for me personally. I assumed cloudflare was an option from their advertisment and never worried about it. Now I suppose I will.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#107I just upgraded back to Pro, i will post the results in 1-2 days time. I used to use pro but there's really no benefit or difference.
Anyway i did a quick check, my 503 error is currently at 3.23k the past 7 days , that's out of 1 million request the past 7 days.
I was about to upgrade to ARGO and pay for it since i was optimising the bandwidth the past month until I saw this article which really gave me a shock.... because I heavily invested in Cloudflare stock market...... Which so far has good returns and i still believe in it but this article is critical ... If what this person say is true, I might exit Cloudflare earlier, from the stock market i mean.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#108One gotcha for CloudFlare is that I find they will serve CAPTCHA pages for asset requests (like JavaScript or CSS) which will break your site (obviously the user won't see the captcha when the browser was expecting JS or an image). To avoid this you need to turn the firewall and security feats to "Essentially Off" at least for asset requests (you can do this partial blocking via a page rule). That being said this doe…
Are you sure they didn't fix this? I remember getting those all the time, but haven't encountered one for several months now.
Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#109I just upgraded back to Pro, i will post the results in 1-2 days time. I used to use pro but there's really no benefit or difference. Anyway i did a quick check, my 503 error is currently at 3.23k the past 7 days , that's out of 1 million request the past 7 days. I was about to upgrade to ARGO and pay for it since i was optimising the bandwidth the past month until I saw this article which really gave me a shock....…
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Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
#110I have two domains with millions of requests a month and hundreads of GB of bandwidth, both of them work quite well even in free mode. However today and few days ago too it seems requests going through Cloudflare are just timing out. So we finally move to paid plan We're monitoring both endpoints (CF and the origin)
Do keep us updated, I also upgraded but i really dont know what benefits are there to pro plan, tried it before felt no difference.