Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage

Re:Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage by csande17 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:01PM (#33336721)

I think the parent comment's claim is that serving a CAPTCHA page to potential attackers may actually be more resource intensive than serving a lightweight page that has the actual content on it.

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Re:Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage by yunohn on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:58AM (#33341002)

So, you posit, that Cloudflare has never thought of this before or weighed the pros/cons before building an entire business out of it? Sure.

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Re:Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage by csande17 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:04AM (#33355050)

Typically, the pages that Cloudflare protects are not especially lightweight or efficient.

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