From: water@foun.tn   
      
   mrcoffee  writes:   
      
   > On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:29:16 +0100, MrSnorkly wrote:   
   >   
   >> I am so tired of being unable to visit simple websites because they rely   
   >> on Cloudflare. Do they have such an advanced service that everyone wants   
   >> to use it? Can some tech anon explain whats so special about them?   
   >   
   > Its all the more reason to selfhost as much as you can.   
   > I'm not saying Cloudflare doesn't provide a useful service, but rather   
   > they do act as a sort of single point of failure for the wider internet.   
   > If you ever find yourself using a service too often, its likely time to   
   > look into self hosted solutions as a backup.   
      
   I do selfhost my goofy website but isn't the point of cloudflare to   
   protect yourself from DDoS (intentional or otherwise) events and AI   
   scrapers and hackers attempting to fuck around?   
   Hell, even using opensource blocklists I still have to deal with   
   countless russian/chinese/romanian (for some reason) IPs jacking up my   
   resource usage.   
      
   In fact, allow me to hijack this thread and ask if anyone has an opinion   
   on Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis   
   I don't want to force users to run JS, and even less so to do useless   
   math anytime they visist. But it seems necessary in today's internet.   
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