zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhat is cloudlfare actually supposed to do?message-squaremessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareWhat is cloudlfare actually supposed to do?zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square21linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareEarthwormjim91@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoIf you’re only running a small website with little traffic, yeah absolutely. But if your traffic grows, your costs increase rapidly to buy hardware to handle it, or you deal with website crashes. It’s also a lot harder to DDoS a website that uses a CDN than one that entirely self hosts.
minus-squareTHE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoOh yeah, absolutely. It’s just a small passion project for now. Although I wouldn’t mind having to solve the problem of higher traffic haha
If you’re only running a small website with little traffic, yeah absolutely.
But if your traffic grows, your costs increase rapidly to buy hardware to handle it, or you deal with website crashes.
It’s also a lot harder to DDoS a website that uses a CDN than one that entirely self hosts.
Oh yeah, absolutely. It’s just a small passion project for now. Although I wouldn’t mind having to solve the problem of higher traffic haha