Do you use Cloudflare?
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HotRodCarts
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Yep (free version)
eva2000
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I’ve been a Cloudflare customer for 13 years now and a Cloudflare Community MVP for 7 years, and personally use all Cloudflare plans – Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise across my sites/forums
Every new site I create these days uses Cloudflare 
Among my clients forum/non-forum, roughly 15% do not use Cloudflare. 55% use Cloudflare Free plans, 25% use Cloudflare Pro plans and the remaining 5% use Cloudflare Business plans
For my Centmin Mod LEMP users, IIRC, at least 90% use Cloudflare across plans ranging from Free to Business, with a handful using Enterprise.
zappaDPJ
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I don't use Cloudflare. My sites reside on a pretty robust server that has had no reported downtime except for what was planned in more years than I can remember. I also don't have issues with performance or DDOS/bot attacks so Cloudflare really has nothing to offer me.
As an (impatient) Internet user I find Cloudflare to be a bit of a pain. I am human, I know it, I wish Cloudflare did and outages like the one experienced today took a ridiculous number of sites off-line for a considerable amount of time.
I understand to some extent why site owners choose to use it but it's really not for me.
As an (impatient) Internet user I find Cloudflare to be a bit of a pain. I am human, I know it, I wish Cloudflare did and outages like the one experienced today took a ridiculous number of sites off-line for a considerable amount of time.
I understand to some extent why site owners choose to use it but it's really not for me.
ENF
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I'm in the same boat basically. We've got a robust setup as well and a good network border control to ward off the rampage of bots and unwanted crawlers. CF is nice for a plug-n-play where you don't have in-house expertise to do it all. I'm afraid there's too much brain drain going on and there's certainly lot less desire out there to skill-up in the server ops world (os/db/net/app layers). People just want it to work out of the box instead of learning how it actually works. (Great fit for cloud users, turnkey solution and so on...)
Mendalla
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Was it a DNS issue? It took down a couple sites that we use at work but I haven't looked into details yet.
I have considered it but given our size, it kind of seems like overkill , even free. On the other hand, if it can cut down the number of bots hammering us, maybe worth trying at least free.
I'm not sure what the issue is.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ is pretty vague with details.
My point is that i could change my DNS to point direct to my server at namesilo where my names are registered bypassing cloudflare if the outage were to be extended. If my domains where at cloudflare, which they keep tempting me to move there, i could not do that update as the portal was down too.
So, i will keep my names out side of the CF service and not put all the powers in one basket.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ is pretty vague with details.
My point is that i could change my DNS to point direct to my server at namesilo where my names are registered bypassing cloudflare if the outage were to be extended. If my domains where at cloudflare, which they keep tempting me to move there, i could not do that update as the portal was down too.
So, i will keep my names out side of the CF service and not put all the powers in one basket.
zappaDPJ
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Cloudflare are describing it as 'an internal service degradation that may intermittently impact some services' which has got to be understatement of the year. Security experts are claiming privacy risks are involved although I'm not really sure how.
chillibear
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