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		mcherm 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don'... Which is more likely, a DDOS attack on your site or a Cloudflare outage? I think that for most sites the DDOS attack is more likely.

amatecha 3 months ago | [–]

Neither - users being blocked because they use an uncommon browser: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/cloudflare_blocking_n...

jolmg 3 months ago | [–]

Seems very unlikely for most sites to attract enough attention to get a DDOS. Searching "cloudflare outages":

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare+outage

Cloudflare apparently has outages every 1-2 years or so.

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