Cloudflare lots of requests
reddit / selfhosted

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Only-Pin-490 · 2023-12-15 19:53

Hi,

I bought a domain on cloudflare in order to expose my selfhosted apps.
I am using authelia with 2fa for security an have my cloudflare
challenges to high. I have got 2.5k requests in the last 24 hours. The
domain only started working 48 hours ago but I have got seemingly a
lot of requests. Most of the requests (1.7k) are from my country so I
am not sure if they are all me but that leaves 800 requests from 144
unique visitors that are not me. A few cloudflare challenges were
completed from people in other countries and I have locked all traffic
not from my country for now. Is this normal for a new domain and
should I be worried?


Thank you!

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ThePixlPirate · 2023-12-15 19:56

Completely normal….bots are gonna bot

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Only-Pin-490 · 2023-12-15 19:57

Ok, thank you so much! I just wasn’t sure as it seemed like a very
high number of requests.

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ThePixlPirate · 2023-12-15 20:00

Unfortunately it comes with the territory. Hopefully you have domain
privacy protection or else be prepared to be bombarded with tons of
calls every day from random “tech company” Indians wanting to build
websites and logos for you

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Only-Pin-490 · 2023-12-15 20:10

I have Whois protection for free with cloudflare I think and I have as
much security as I can on everything.

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StarPrincessTech · 2023-12-16 07:29

If you’re worried about this and already in the Cloudflare ecosystem,
[Cloudflare Zero Trust](https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/zero-trust/)
may be worth a try.