Person: *has issues with bots* (probably just stuff...

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Person: *has issues with bots* (probably just stuff like Google's crawler n stuff)
People trying to "help": "Use CloudFlare"

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Could you all please bugger off with CloudFail?

Like 5 Feb 2021 at 17:45 | Open on social.linux.pizza

5 comments

Maxim Lebedev

@finlaydag33k what's better than CloudFlare in this situation?

16 Feb 2021 at 16:08 | Open on mstdn.io

Aroop Roelofs :verified:

@toby3d Build a proper website.
In the cases where some bots can cause issues significant enough to actually matter you have a variety of issues.

In the case of it sending spam through forms: You probably don't have any anti-spam to begin with, add it.

In the case of it clogging your logs: You probably don't filter out bots, do this.

In the case of it overloading your server: Your site is probably inefficient, optimize it.

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16 Feb 2021 at 17:26 | Open on social.linux.pizza

Aroop Roelofs :verified:

@toby3d I like to see bots as a benchmark.
If I get issues from 100 bots (which is already a pretty high number), your site probably wouldn't be able to handle 100 legitimate users either.

16 Feb 2021 at 17:28 | Open on social.linux.pizza

Maxim Lebedev

@finlaydag33k But what about SSL? What if I have static website? What if only CF provides efficient caching for my site?

16 Feb 2021 at 18:13 | Open on mstdn.io

Aroop Roelofs :verified:

@toby3d SSL is free anyways and it isn't difficult to setup (heck, things like H2O and Caddy support it out of the box!).

If you have a static website, bots should become even less of an issue.
You coould even look into IPFS for it to allow for P2P transfers.
Additionally, CF only really caches if you allow them to run a massive MITM on your site.

16 Feb 2021 at 18:36 | Open on social.linux.pizza