CloudFlare check sucks

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[–]Kingdud 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Part of why the cloudflare check is as bad as it is stems from the fact that if you don't protect your instance from DDOS, cloudflare drops you as a customer. So basically "use our DDOS guard, or we drop you as a customer!" Why? Mostly business costing. If you're big enough to have the kind of website traffic that looks like a DDOS, then they want to charge you more than their cheapest tier, but they can't say "Hey, you're successful, give us our cut" because then you look like Unity. So, instead, they just make the user experience bad in the hopes that the hosting provider cares about their users and is too stupid to realize they're being had.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

A few years ago we were hosted in Switzerland and our server company there actually forcefully dropped us as a client because the nonstop DDOSes were so bad it was impacting their entire server farm and eating up all their bandwidth. Like we were breaking their whole company.

Running a forum is surprisingly heavy-duty. Saidit is a fortress. And forums that aren't, get destroyed. It's a real problem for free speech

[–]MeganDelacroix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for being on that wall.

[–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's really funny. Maybe you should talk about it on the Saidit movie.

On the other hand, I'm surprised cloudflare doesn't drop us as a costumer. Maybe they use our website to test their DDOS protections?

"Hey it's the alt-right forum that keeps getting attacked, let's test our new stuff there"