Here's a fun game for the family:
Search for "cheesecake" in your search engine of choice and then count how many links you have to check before you find a webpage which does not connect to one of: Google, CloudFlare, Akamai, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter
For me, it was 34 links. And that 34th link was the Wikipedia-article for cheesecake...
Re:CloudFlare, We Have a Problem
by _Understated_ on Saturday July 16, 2016 @04:07AM
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^ My point exactly.
There are a handful of entities that now control the flow of the Internet's information and that worries me deeply.
Often, that description is exactly the kind of site that needs Cloudflare - the blog or brochureware site built by someone with no devops or Wordpress abilities in general - who ends up with a Wordpress site that maxes out at 0.5req/sec. Which then gets a Facebook advertising campaign.
Re:CloudFlare, We Have a Problem
by garysieling on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:09AM
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Putting the free version of Cloudflare in front of a Wordpress site is the greatest thing. I used to spent a lot of time hunting down performance/stability issues with a VPS I built, now it's almost never a problem.
On the other hand, how often do pages that suddenly become popular get hugged to death, because they are just a small Wordpress page on a VPS or shared hosting somewhere? Throwing a CDN in front to catch these traffic spikes can do a lot.
I use a VPN and I constantly get hit with the cloudflare page and a lot of the sites I see it on are small, amateur sites or personal sites that just need a Wordpress page.
They don't need Cloudflare.
Getting bloody sick of this new centralization of the web. It's a worrying new trend that the very nature of how the Internet works is being reshaped and controlled by a handful of entities.