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  • HN hug of death?
    by judge2020
  • Ironic, given the title of the post.
    by everfree
  • Could've used some more Cloudflare.
    by Meneth
  • this is still the best article on cloudflare if anyone wants to see a similar post while the OP site recovers: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-hav...
    by Uptrenda
  • Is there a good alt to cloudflare? I don’t want to feed the beast but they are substantially better / cheaper for my use case (domain registrations and tiny websites)
    by bix6
  • Same, I’d rather not use them but there’s really not much else out there that can offer what Cloudflare does for the price (free). In particular I love the free egress from backblaze.

    I’d gladly jump ship if there was a competent competitor, even if paid… within reason.

    by dawnerd
  • AWS Cloudfront + S3 is basically free for tiny sites. I have a Terraform module to spin everything up easily.
    by pgib
  • I've heard good things about https://bunny.net/
    by monneyboi
  • I got a hearty chuckle out of the redirect linked from the GitLab project info.

    [1] http://crimeflare.eu.org/

    by 0hijinks
  • > decloudflare

    > visit website

    > mission accomplished

    I wish life was that simple

    by pelagicAustral
  • GitHub version https://github.com/jiakaiBot/deCloudflare/blob/89983e1501dbb...
    by judge2020
  • Why does this repo always seem to have trouble staying online? All the other mirrors are down, and it's not because of this post, because I have been watching other mirrors of this repo disappear over time that aren't even listed there, like https://notabug.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor and https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor.
    by ranger_danger
  • Your site isn't even loading; it looks like you should use Cloudflare.
    by mertcangokgoz
  • it would probably be up, if it was using cloudflare...
    by 5kyl4b
  • I would love if there was some content here besides vague posting about Cloudflare bad. Like why? There truly is no thesis to convince me right now.

    Also love the irony of getting an HN hug of death w/o Cloudflare

    by SCUSKU
  • I can't shake the feeling that since its dealing with a huge amount of network traffic and it also strips SSL from every connection before passing it onto origins, they are a very juicy target for a certain three letter agency to place a tap.

    The bit I'm less bothered about is the centralising effect it has on the internet.

    by amiga-workbench
  • Cloudflare is simply following the time-honored trajectory:

    1. Good company starts, with good service and mission

    2. Because company has good service and mission, company grows to control a majority of the market

    3. Company realizes they can leverage their market for other means and sells their soul to the devil

    4. People realize company is no longer good

    5a. People leave company

    -or-

    5b. Company is now a monopoly and people can't leave

    Sources: - Microsoft - Google - Others

    by Hobadee
  • ironic that an article presumably about avoiding use of cloudflare is apparently unable to handle spikes in traffic caused by posting it on a forum
    by upheaval7276
  • He's is running GitLab, a rather inefficient webserver.
    by Meneth