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Re:Cloudflare Is Having Issues by bombcar on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:56PM (#36297984)
People stick cloud flare on the front less for the CDN/DDoS protection and more for the web application firewall, because their small business website is almost certainly some incredibly out of date Wordpress install with more vulnerabilities than you can shake a stick at.

Wordpress should integrate one of those "Wordpress to static site" plugins as the default because that's all 80% of the users need.

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Re:Cloudflare Is Having Issues by 22c on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:02PM (#36303734)
Yes and let's also not put it past an unscrupulous operator to be willing to pay a few dollars online to take down the website of one of their small-business competitors. It can and does happen.

Folks pointing out that their Raspberry Pi self-hosted static site résumé can handle 500 requests per second are missing the point.

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Re:Cloudflare Is Having Issues by xp84 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:12PM (#36332738)
Seriously.

The Wordpress approach of dynamically composing every page server-side made sense:

* Before AJAX made personalizing the 'logged-in experience' easy even on a mainly static site

* When CPUs were so slow that regenerating, say, 1000 static HTML files just because you updated your footer or your "top stories" sidebar would take an annoying amount of time instead of what, 4 seconds now?

* Before spambots essentially made it impossible to host a comments section, and Disqus and the Facebook plugin became the defacto choice for anyone still brave enough to try.

Due to the above, I can't imagine using PHP or even some sexier-today technology to dynamically just-in-time assemble HTML pages that 99-100% of the audience will be viewing statically.

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