Post B0NBchyHAefCEixX7Y by wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
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 (DIR) Post #B0NBchyHAefCEixX7Y by wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
       2025-11-18T14:08:16Z
       
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       @neil The worst part about the cloudflare outage is that even if you *are* self-hosting you may still be fronted by cloudflare as it's the only well-known free/affordable way to either fend off the AI bot swarm or expose a behind-the-firewall service to the outside.I'm using Cloudflare's free tunneling service and got burned by this but I don't know that there's any alternative (and setting that up myself is both even more work/expense and also more hassle and annoyance, which sucks)
       
 (DIR) Post #B0NBcipnxdTuuk0HYW by beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com
       2025-11-18T14:29:39Z
       
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       @wordshaper @neil we had to drop support for customers fronting their sites with CloudFlare on our shared servers because it's not effective at stopping the AI bot swarm, and using it makes it impossible for us to do so ourselves. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09/03/web-hosting-and-cloudflare/
       
 (DIR) Post #B0NC3qYFNUqsfMj0i0 by afewbugs@social.coop
       2025-11-18T14:08:30Z
       
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       @neil if we self hosted I guarantee one of the cats would pee on the server