I run several services without cloudflare, but it's so tempting.
Their product is excellent, and so easy to use. You push a button, and suddenly a whole class of difficult problems disappears.
It's very hard to fight against the urge to use it.
Their product is excellent, and so easy to use. You push a button, and suddenly a whole class of difficult problems disappears.
It's very hard to fight against the urge to use it.
We can dismiss the problems all we want by saying "most people don't need it", but if they're using it, clearly they see a need and this has to be addressed not ignored. Which is why it's so hard to fight against the urge, so go ahead and use it if it saves you time and money. Until real alternatives exist, don't hinder yourself.
and a whole new class of problems appears
(my regular cloudflare outage is when they decide to add new "security" that the existing "disable security" page rules don't apply to, great for API consumers)
This corroborates something I read that I'm paraphrasing: If you want a successful business, solve a problem and sell it.